'We're still so tired': Europe's doctors brace for second Covid-19 wave

When the Guardian spoke to staff in March they had no time for reflection. So what do they think of the new surge now?

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During the initial peak of Spain's Covid-19 pandemic in the spring, the virus displayed an unexpected mercy. In its spread, ferocity and awful novelty, it left health workers too tired and overwhelmed to look beyond the next few hours.

There's no time to get angry or to wonder why things have been organised the way they have been," Sara Gayoso, an A&E doctor at El Escorial hospital near Madrid, told the Guardian at the end of March.