'It's Unimaginably Bad.' How Government Failures and the New COVID-19 Variant Are Pushing the U.K.'s Health System Into Crisis Time 1/13/2021 Ciara Nugent © Tolga Akmen—AFP/Getty Images A patient is taken from an ambulance by staff wearing PPE equipment at the Royal Free Hospital, London, on Jan. 11 as surging cases of Covid-19 are placing health services under increasing pressure Dr Rachel Clarke never dreamed that in her medical career, she would say out loud that hospitals in Britain are running out of oxygen. Yet some hospitals in the U.K. are now in that critical s...