A 26-year-old junior doctor in Scotland said that when he saw someone his own age become seriously ill with coronavirus it scared himIt was this summer when Dr Manveer Rahi, 26, first saw a patient about his own age rushed into intensive care. After more than a year on the front line often treating people with Covid-19, watching that previously healthy individual spiral towards death’s door left him shaken. Sponsored“Up until this point I had mostly seen older patients who became really sick,” said Rahi, a junior doctor in southeast Scotland. “When someone as young as that became really unwell it did scare me in some respects because the illusion young people were not at risk was gone.”Manveer Rahi said he was scared to see young people with severe Covid-19He went home contemplating his own mortality and fearing for his peers. “It does scare me to see younger people with severe Covid,” he says.

Source: The Times August 05, 2021 23:15 UTC