'I could have died': Cork doctor, 23, recalls scary Covid-19 experience

Ivan Hayes, consultant intensivist and critical care director at CUH, Owen O’Flynn, a 23 year old trainee doctor who spent time in CUH ICU as a patient with Covid-19, and Corinna Sadlier, consultant in infectious diseases at Cork University Hospital launch the National Covid Research and Scientific Meeting. Picture: Gerard McCarthy

A young doctor who was treated for Covid-19 in the intensive care unit at Cork University Hospital says he will never know how he contracted the virus.

Dr Owen O’Flynn, 23, from Bantry, Co Cork, was very fit before he got sick. He has recovered but is still on medication for his heart.