Here in the UK, the peak is looming and the death toll is mounting.

Are our hospitals prepared?

If the projections that we're seeing are realized, we will completely outstrip the supply, not just of ventilators for other piece of equipment and also essentials such as oxygen.

What's it like being an ICU doctor on the front line of COVID-19?

I am scared that young fish and healthy nurses who are about my age are sometimes

sadly killed with this disease which is terrifying. You're listening to stories of

our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manveen Rana. Today, intensive care, a doctor's story. I know you're incredibly busy at the moment and you're dealing with some really

difficult things at work and you've got lots of difficult concerns outside of

work too just in the middle of all of that how are you?

Thank you for asking actually and weirdly that might set me off being a bit emotional but I think that's just how I am at the moment.

Lucy Kocher is a 31 year old ICU doctor working in the East Midlands and she's been dealing with the coronavirus outbreak since it began.

Most of the time I am doing well as long as I'm keeping my mind busy and doing things that I am finding that as someone that very, very rarely cries, I am quite emotional for small things. My sleep isn't as good as it as it could be and you know all sort of

probably predictable effects of working through and living through something like this.

As with all of our NHS staff, Lucy is working harder than ever.

When we caught up with her over the phone, she was between two long night shifts.

It's not a situation I hope I'd find myself in ever and it's definitely not how I saw myself living my life this summer but I am sure I will

come out the other end of it a more experience if not always a good experience doctor.

When did you realize that coronavirus was here and that your normal working life was about to change completely?

So I think about the start of March when we were getting a lot more figures from Italy

and we started having planning meetings about what we would need to do as a department

and at that point it felt very much like we were planning just in case

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