Viral Survival: My Brothers and My Review – Strict Dispatch from Covid’s Front Line | TV & Radio

THis boys are back in town-not immediately. By practicing doctors and personal presenters, twin brothers Chris and Xand van Tulleken have been carving out a decent niche for themselves across various channels over the last few years. While they are good at providing programs that allow the general public to access medical and social medicine issues, they remain rigorous enough to distinguish them from the herd. They will help you with your hard sickness and will be a natural choice for the BBC documentary about the current state of knowledge about Covid-19’s ever-evolving effects and implications, even in the absence of health care professionals. Chris is a virologist and well-meaning expert in infectious diseases at the University College Hospital in London, while Xand has many years of public health experience going to disaster zones and fending off infectious diseases that try to take root there. Is a doctor. “Now our country, our home can’t handle it,” he said, and at least some time in the past four months, he has not completely defended from his voice the incredible beliefs that we all felt.

Surviving the Virus: My Brother and I (BBC One) is Dr. Chris’s frontline work in one of the UCH wards that was diverted to corona care in the lab 10 years later, and Dr. Xand’s in his care home after his recovery from the virus. A description of the job. At some point a recurrent attack of a cardiac arrhythmia sending him to Chris’ own A&E.

Filming will take place from the 3rd to the 14th week of lockdown. Introduce the referral to patients in the ward in a traditional television manner. In this way, you’ll meet Richard, aged 80, who is recovering relatively well, and Florentino, who has spent weeks on ventilators and dialysis machines. His doctor scraped his stiff, unresponsive lung scan for signs of hope, and began to consider whether continued treatment would do more harm than good to his destroyed frame. I will.

At Care Home, Dr. Xand passed through the place early in the day, helping the remaining 13 inhabitants, killing 7 – most live in the same corridor – within 11 days To Most of the survivors suffering from dementia are masked gloves that are as far away from each other as possible and do their best to maintain the safety and some quality of life of these infinitely vulnerable people. The temperature is monitored all day long by the fitted staff.

The most dramatic moment is arguably Xand is being defibrillated while Chris is watching for forced passivity. But the most striking moments are scattered elsewhere. Strictness, that little extra edge that characterizes the Van Churenken program, usually knows that they’re usually talking to the doctor rather than the front line and the medical staff they are talking to, not the parachute-closed presenter. Comes from the fact that Lower guards, less inevitable filtering and cleverness, and greater truth delivered with greater passion. “It’s bad in so many ways,” says Dr. Mike Patterson, a paramedic. “I couldn’t believe I had a disease that made me feel like this… It looks like there is a 50% immobile mortality.”

The Care Home Manager told Xand that she had watched her charges “painfully die away from her family,” with a sort of tired anger over and over again on many staff interviewed afterwards, The government told us, “The nursing home wasn’t at risk… I didn’t know what I was dealing with. I couldn’t get a PPE.”

“They are deaths that didn’t have to happen,” Xand said.

The willingness to admit that doctors don’t know things and don’t have all the answers, and the intelligent preparation and confidence to advise according to the knowledge they have, is a powerful person. It’s in stark contrast to the timid attitude and incapacity of you every time you fumble. The survival of the virus involved many factual and emotional grounds, including those who were humble and open, the wisdom to learn, the ability to make connections, and the integration, theorizing, adapting of information, Innovation that remains in your mind when credits roll. The spectacle of best effort based on competence and information has been terribly impressive these days.