Colleagues in tears and night panics – ICU doctors describe coronavirus despair

Dr Ben Attwood (Ben Attwood/PA)

Intensive care doctors in the UK have described jolting awake at night and witnessing colleagues breaking down as they warned that specialist units are “not out of the woods” with coronavirus cases.

Despite a downward trend nationally in coronavirus cases and hospital admissions, consultant Dr Ben Attwood said intensive care units such as his at Warwick Hospital are yet to see the same level of reduction.