The Irish Times spends a day in Dublin’s Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, where patients and staff are working their way through the pandemic, treating coronavirus and many other illnessesA normality of sorts is beginning to return to life at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, in north Dublin. Of the more than 800 Covid-19 patients treated in the Mater hospital, 52 ended up in ICU. But nobody is yet sure what that will mean for staff, patients and society. Gradually, staff at the Mater and their colleagues around the world began to learn more about this frightening new virus. “My children never want to see it again.”The ICU patient: Glyn O’Connor and his father, AlanGlyn O’Connor is hooked up to monitors and oxygen, conscious but not fully alert.

Source: The Irish Times June 13, 2020 05:00 UTC