Ellie Merton đź•· longcovid longhauler #FBLC Profile picture
Non-aligned, independent campaigner on Palestine, human rights, BDS, NHS, mental health, breast cancer, music. Formerly Cambs/Walthamstow, now stay in Scotland
Mar 22, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
This is from a musician friend I can personally vouch for, early this morning:

“My sister, a doctor, is back in a north London hospital after a day away and says it is absolutely catastrophic. They’ve run out of ventilators and she is having to palliate people in their 50s... 1/ “...with no underlying health conditions – people who will certainly die on their own with no visitors. People are waiting to go into the intensive care unit in their 30s and 40s who are likely to die waiting...2/