Doctors on the front line look back on the pandemic two years since Scotland went into lockdown.
When Scotland went into lockdown on 23 March 2020, there were 83 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Compare that to the many thousands of cases we are recording today.
Routine screening was paused, instead of people getting their hips and knees done, wards were reorganised and staff redeployed to treat Covid patients.Staff living on adrenaline, rallying together against an unknown danger. PPE, protocols, the patient headcount were all changing by the hour."We knew nothing about it two years ago," he said. "We saw a disease that we had very little understanding of that just tore through our vulnerable populations.
"We saw families where daughters, sons, mums and dads came into critical care together. So yes, it was very sobering, very challenging." As of 22 March there were 2,221 Covid patients in hospital, with 29 in critical care. During the peak of the Alpha wave in January 2021 there were 2,053 Covid patients with 161 of those in critical care.
Dr Doyle says between one half and two thirds of patients in Ninewells are asymptomatic or testing positive after being admitted for a different medical condition."It's not gone in terms of critical care, today for example we have three patients in intensive care and one in high dependency in our Covid section so we have to have a separate ward for that.
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