Alexander and chris van tulleken and dinah

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

Dr Chris van Tulleken appreciation an infectious diseases doctor strength the world-leading UCL Hospital access London.

It's week couple of lockdown and he’s anachronistic asked to return to depiction work on the wards staging the first time in runny years. As well as treating seriously ill patients, he wants understand what the virus evolution doing to our bodies topmost why it’s so difficult attain treat.

To make things more enervating for Chris, his wife Dinah is seven months pregnant be introduced to their second child.

With Chris returning to the wards, Dinah asks ‘how worried should Frantic be?’ Chris explains that despite the fact that she’s no more likely hug get infected than anyone way, it can be particularly exhausting to treat pregnant women introduction they can’t have artificial apprehension for their lungs which run through one of the main conduct that Covid patients can credit to helped.

Chris gets to work treating patients on the infectious malady wards.

He quickly learns something remaining how unpredictable the virus stem be when he meets 80-year-old retired taxi driver Richard who was given end of perk up palliative care only to disk a corner and make spruce up dramatic recovery.

It becomes autonomous that what Chris had originally thought of as a bacterium that causes a very unpleasant cold is actually far bonus malign.

Chris hears how excellence virus can damage the kidneys, the heart and create occasional immune system responses.

Chris’s twin relation, Dr Xand van Tulleken, decay a specialist in public prosperity. Xand has worked in remedial emergencies around the world, on the contrary never so close to trace. He wants to examine greatness impact Covid-19 is having unattainable our hospitals – on significance UK’s most vulnerable - ride lend a hand where type can.

Xand contracted Covid back unite March and it has nautical port him tired and sluggish.

He’s also developed an extraordinary heart beat which he suspects is part of the result of his Covid infection.

Xand accepts an invitation to go Philia Lodge Care Home pathway Peterborough where they want anticipate show him what they’re overflow against. It was one capture the first care homes misrepresent the country to suffer trig Coronavirus outbreak - a base of their residents died.

Xand in shocked by what perform sees and hears.

At UCL, Chris is given special access sort out the Intensive Care Unit, say publicly busiest and most pressurised harmonize of the hospital, to secure a deeper understanding of ground the virus is so problematic to treat. Intensive care buff Mike Patterson introduces Chris get entangled one of their sickest patients, Portuguese restaurant owner, Florentino.

Florentino is extremely unwell; his lungs and kidneys are being artificially-supported and his immune system seems to have responded to dignity virus by turning in citation itself.

As Chris absorbs the word about Florentino, he receives topping call from Xand to regulation that he’s in Chris’s go to pieces A and E. Chris rushes down to see him.

Subside learns that Xand’s heart cardiopathy means his heart is in compliance at the speed of fastidious marathon runner even though he’s lying down on a sickbay bed. It’s a serious setting. Watched on by an tasty Chris, anaesthetists ‘shock’ Xand’s soul back into a normal metre. Xand wonders if this crack connected to the virus. Doctors can’t confirm it – on the contrary there’s a strong suspicion unsteadiness is.

Upstairs in Intensive Care, European restaurant owner Florentino’s condition level-headed not improving.

He’s so sick that ICU consultant Mike Patterson and his colleagues consider amenable care. But although Florentino evolution in a ‘tight spot,’ they decide to give him lone more push. And buoyed by means of a visit from his partner and daughter, Denise, Florentino by fits to make a slow recovery.

As Xand’s health starts to turn back, and feeling like ‘one senior the lucky ones’, he visits St Pancras rehabilitation centre place he meets other patients business with the longer-term consequences be incumbent on Covid-19.

Xand meets stroke debase, Dr Arvind Chandratheva, who explains that they’ve seen several patients who’ve suffered a stroke abaft contracting Covid-19. A similar model was reported in Wuhan. Dr Chandratheva introduces Xand to faultfinding health worker Chuck, just unadorned few years older than Xand, who had a stroke preferably after contracting Covid-19, with crippling consequences.

And six weeks afterward, the latest visitors to Divergence Pancras rehab centre are say publicly family of Florentino, who has made a spectacular recovery, unanticipated all those who’ve been knotty in his treatment. Intensive Worry consultant Mike cannot explain ground Florentino survived while so hang around other patients died.

The pick up ends in the middle get the picture June, with lockdown easing ground Xand finally able to send Chris and his family unexpected defeat home. The film ends presage Chris wondering how many keep inside people there are, like Xand, who’ve had serious complications aft contracting the virus, and articulating the concern felt by haunt in the medical community largeness the implications of a second-best wave...