Love Island’s Dr Alex George has continued to prove a hero as he works the frontline for the NHS – and he has given us all an update on what he called the ‘hardest shift of his life’ in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Taking to Instagram, Dr Alex shared a selfie of him alongside his fellow colleagues while they were hard at work, with their fists raised in the air.
‘From my family to yours, stay home and stay safe,’ he wrote. ‘We are on shift and so won’t be able to hear your clap tonight, but know that the message is received loud and clear.’
He added: ‘Latest video from the frontline is live on my YouTube channel.’
In his latest YouTube video, Dr Alex updated fans on what life is like working on the NHS frontline at his Lewisham hospital during the outbreak of Covid-19.
He revealed that he did not find his recent time at work to be very easy, after having a patient admitted after suffering a cardiac arrest, while another man in his 60s had to be intubated after experiencing symptoms of coronavirus.
Talking to the camera, he said: ‘It feels like we’ve had a lot thrown at us today. There’s been a lot of coronavirus today, it’s been pretty challenging.
‘Days like today are tough. Cardiac arrest is always horrible.’
The doctor later mentioned that there has been an increasing number of patients, and only a limited amount of resources for them.
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He continued: ‘We’re talking about whether intensive care units can cope, it depends how many patients we get.
‘And we only have a limited number of beds, a limited amount of capacity, a limited number of staff, so it’s really hard when you have so many patients coming in.
‘As this crisis unfolds, I think the pressure’s just going to increase on departments, I think they will cope, but there’s gonna be a lot of pressure.’
Earlier in the video, Dr Alex’s colleague Dr Catherine Taylor had revealed that they were used to seeing ‘four or five’ patients being intubated each day, and she hopes that they will hit the peak ‘in the next couple of weeks’.
In a previous video, the doctor had also revealed that there are two types of coronavirus testing available – antigen testing and antibody testing.
‘Antigen testing is essentially, “Is there the presence of that virus in your body right now?” And we’re using swabs to do that,’ he said.
‘We’re taking swabs from the nose or the throat, sending them away to a lab.’
He continued: ‘Antibody testing, is where we usually do a finger prick test or we take a sample of blood, and we look for antibodies against that virus – either IGG or IGM, the two types of antibodies we usually look for when doing these tests.’
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