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Inside Covid

Healthcare workers from St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney share the Covid stories hidden from public view during the pandemic

23 December 2021

  • Dr Katrina Tonga, respiratory consultant

    Life on the ward: ‘He said to me: doctor, am I going to die?’

    Sometimes the only contact Covid intensive care patients had with their family was via FaceTime or Skype, Dr Katrina Tonga says

22 December 2021

  • India Wells

    Life on the ward: ‘It’s difficult separating family members from loved ones’

    Sydney’s Delta outbreak has been ‘extremely stressful’ for health workers, nurse India Wells says

21 December 2021

  • Chris Robinson, executive director of innovation and improvement at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney

    Life on the ward: ‘Covid was the ideal job for me’

    Chris Robinson’s job is all about change and ‘a pandemic makes you have to change more than you could ever imagine’, he says

20 December 2021

  • Dr Anthony Byrne, a consultant respiratory physician and lung specialist

    Life on the ward: ‘You can’t tell war stories, but they’re with you’

    Before Covid, Dr Anthony Byrne ran St Vincent’s tuberculosis treatment. Now he’s looking after ‘long Covid’ patients months after they caught the disease

19 December 2021

  • Dr Michael Novy, ED Specialist at Parklea Correctional Centre.

    Life on the ward: how do you care for Covid patients in prison?

    ‘You can only build a net, it’s never a wall,’ says Dr Michael Novy, who cared for 160 inmates through a flap in a locked door
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