As an intensive care nurse, I never could've envisioned how this pandemic would change the look of an ICU ward. My first day stepping into a Covid ICU still haunts me, and I will never forget how I felt leaving at the end of that shift. At a hospital in London, a 12-bedded ICU now had 50 beds and resembled something you see in a war movie. The ICU ward here had 70 beds, 40 more than "normal times", accommodating Covid patients by closing down other wards and turning them into makeshift ICUs. Army medics were brought in to assist the nurses who were now almost certainly taking care of four ICU patients each per shift.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 17, 2021 03:28 UTC