For the first time, cameras have been allowed inside a Sydney ICU, where patients are fighting for their lives.
NSW Health allowed photographer Kate Geraghty into the ICU of a Sydney hospital to show what it was like for those suffering Covid-19.A man is pictured attached to a breathing apparatus with straps keeping the lifesaving machinery in place around his cheeks and forehead.He is being tended to by nurses and doctors in alien-like protective personal equipment.
The harrowing pictures were published as medical experts announced people under the age of 40 should be vaccinated against Covid-19 if they are in Sydney. Blood clotting can occur in very rare circumstances but Royal Australian College of General Practitioners president Karen Price said the risk of Covid-19 has now outweighed the risk of a vaccine.
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