In intensive care at St-Mary’s Hospital, Doctor Hugo Villadevall no longer counts the hours spent caring for patients with COVID.
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“The majority are unvaccinated patients. Here is a patient who has not been vaccinated for personal circumstances. He got really sick and he’s been on a machine for a week now to help him with ventilation and oxygenation,” says the doctor.
Although most patients are unvaccinated, nurse Nathalie Brossard reminds us that the vaccine does not provide 100% protection.
“For sure there are many who are not vaccinated who have been the sickest. We had some who had had one, two, three vaccines… Then, it was all ages, there were some at 19, 30, 50, 60, 80…”, explains the nurse .
Dive into the reality of critical care healthcare staff in the video above.