Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line

“It felt in some ways like we were trying to prepare for the D-Day landings," says Barbara Miles, clinical director of intensive care at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, "with three weeks to get ready and not a great deal of knowledge about what we would be facing". But what arrived in the UK as winter turned into spring took even the most experienced ICU specialists by surprise. Most people infected with the coronavirus have only mild symptoms, or sometimes none at all. But in many thousands of patients who fall critically ill, Covid-19 is a disease of alarming complexity.’

Read here (BBC, May 23, 2020)