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The Documentary Podcast, On the Covid ward

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On the Covid ward


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Coronavirus: Reporting Covid

November 13, 2021

50 minutes

Available for over a year

Frontline medical teams in the UK have fine-tuned the physical treatment of severely ill Covid patients. But one thing that has gone largely unnoticed is their efforts to help those patients – often on ventilators for weeks – keep up the will to live, and enable their families to stay connected with these patients.

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