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Inside a Covid ward 10 months on: 'Constant trauma every day'

By Damian Whitworth
The Times·
16 mins to read

Last April, Damian Whitworth visited the intensive care unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London to find out how staff were coping in the fight against Covid-19. As they deal with the second dramatic surge in cases, he catches up with them again and hears stories of exhaustion, heartbreak and plummeting morale.

One evening last April, I walked out of the Royal Free Hospital in a state of shell shock. The Times photographer Jack Hill and I had been

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