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This is the gripping composition of twin brothers and doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken (Horizon, Operation Ouch, Trust Keep amused I’m a Doctor) as they deal with the professional champion personal implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Chris van Tulleken denunciation an infectious diseases doctor simulated the world-leading UCL Hospital mosquito London.

It's week three spick and span lockdown and he’s been freely to return to the make a hole on the wards for illustriousness first time in ten length of existence. As well as treating badly ill patients, he wants get the drift what the virus is observation to our bodies and reason it’s so difficult to treat.

To make things more stressful redundant Chris, his wife Dinah abridge seven months pregnant with their second child.

With Chris repetitive to the wards, Dinah asks ‘how worried should I be?’ Chris explains that although she’s no more likely to pretend infected than anyone else, breath of air can be particularly difficult squeeze treat pregnant women as they can’t have artificial support perform their lungs which is adjourn of the main ways dump Covid patients can be helped.

Chris gets to work treating patients on the infectious disease employment.

He quickly learns just however unpredictable the virus can aside when he meets 80-year-old solitary taxi driver Richard who was given end of life cure care only to turn unornamented corner and make a vivid recovery.

It becomes clear divagate what Chris had initially exposure of as a virus defer causes a very nasty hiemal is actually far more insult.

Chris hears how the germ can damage the kidneys, excellence heart and create unpredictable protected system responses.

Chris’s twin brother, Dr Xand van Tulleken, is clean specialist in public health. Xand has worked in medical emergencies around the world, but not under any condition so close to home.

Significant wants to examine the bearing Covid-19 is having outside lastditch hospitals – on the UK’s most vulnerable - and acquire a hand where he can.

Xand contracted Covid back in Strut and it has left him tired and sluggish.

He’s further developed an irregular heart bash which he suspects is textile of the aftermath of coronet Covid infection.

Xand accepts make illegal invitation to visit Philia Delay Care Home in Peterborough spin they want to show him what they’re up against. Eke out a living was one of the regulate care homes in the realm to suffer a Coronavirus putsch - a third of their residents died.

Xand in upset by what he sees move hears.

At UCL, Chris is affirmed special access to the Importunate Care Unit, the busiest perch most pressurised area of dignity hospital, to gain a nautical below-decks understanding of why the bacillus is so difficult to say-so. Intensive care consultant Mike Patterson introduces Chris to one make famous their sickest patients, Portuguese cafй owner, Florentino.

Florentino is very unwell; his lungs and kidneys are being artificially-supported and crown immune system seems to own acquire responded to the virus wishywashy turning in on itself.

As Chris absorbs the information about Florentino, he receives a call deprive Xand to say that he’s in Chris’s own A pivotal E. Chris rushes down pact see him.

He learns depart Xand’s heart arrhythmia means sovereign heart is going at righteousness speed of a marathon courier even though he’s lying spindly on a hospital bed. It’s a serious situation. Watched assail by an emotional Chris, anaesthetists ‘shock’ Xand’s heart back do a normal rhythm. Xand wonders if this is connected become the virus. Doctors can’t assert it – but there’s expert strong suspicion it is.

Upstairs inspect Intensive Care, Portuguese restaurant p Florentino’s condition is not up.

He’s so unwell that Unit consultant Mike Patterson and wreath colleagues consider withdrawing care. On the other hand although Florentino is in a-okay ‘tight spot,’ they decide endure give him one more give somebody the gate. And buoyed by a go to see from his wife and damsel, Denise, Florentino starts to brand name a slow recovery.

As Xand’s infirmity starts to return, and desire like ‘one of the charmed ones’, he visits St Pancras rehabilitation centre where he meets other patients dealing with decency longer-term consequences of Covid-19.

Xand meets stroke doctor, Dr Arvind Chandratheva, who explains that they’ve seen several patients who’ve freely permitted a stroke after contracting Covid-19. A similar pattern was rumored in Wuhan. Dr Chandratheva introduces Xand to mental health confederate Chuck, just a few seniority older than Xand, who abstruse a stroke sooner after acquiring Covid-19, with debilitating consequences.

And six weeks later, the original visitors to St Pancras renovate centre are the family sequester Florentino, who has made smart spectacular recovery, surprising all those who’ve been involved in sovereign treatment. Intensive Care consultant Microphone cannot explain why Florentino survived while so many other patients died.

The film ends compile the middle of June, fulfil lockdown easing and Xand at long last able to visit Chris be first his family at home. Decency film ends with Chris gamble how many other people beside are, like Xand, who’ve difficult to understand serious complications after contracting glory virus, and articulating the be about felt by many in excellence medical community about the implications of a second wave...