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More than a quarter of Covid patients admitted to hospital in England during the first months of the pandemic died from the disease. ICU staff were so concerned about the effects of this data on patients that some put up posters that read: “Most people leave here alive.”
One of those who did was Carl Gray, a 60-year-old Minister of the Salvation Army from North London. He was transferred to Homerton Hospital, in Hackney, in the first wave in the UK on 4 April. He couldn’t breathe. The last thing he remembers is the ambulance back in the bay. The rest is empty.
Dr Susan Jain, one of the paramedics who worked to save his life, was describing the unprecedented scenes in NHS hospitals as they worked against a virus they didn’t fully understand, without a vaccine in sight.
The Guardian’s Serene Calley told Rachel Humphreys how she brought Susan and Karl together in a recent magazine article and the passion it elicited in both of them. They discussed faith, family and the broader community response to Covid over the past 18 months. What does it mean to survive a disease that has killed more than 130,000 people in the UK?
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