‘Nurses fell like ninepins’: death and bravery in the 1918 flu pandemic
by Mark Honigsbaum from Science | The Guardian on (#51QSR)
A doctor's harrowing account of the Spanish flu outbreak in London has valuable lessons for medical staff a century on
If predictions about the spread of Covid-19 are correct, the new NHS Nightingale hospital at the ExCel centre in London's Docklands could soon see a "tsunami" of coronavirus patients. Many will have pneumonia and require ventilators, which is why cubicles in the new 4,000-bed facility all have oxygen equipment.
It is to hoped this onslaught never comes and infections spread less rapidly than projections show. But if the worst happens, what can doctors and nurses expect?
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