A healthy nine-year-old boy was left fighting for his life as coronavirus and Kawasaki disease ravaged his body at the same time.
Hooked up to wires and monitors, Joe Cox was blue-lighted 30 miles to a London hospital after doctors in Essex suspected he had the rare inflammatory syndrome that was being linked to Covid-19.
As a team of PPE-clad medics wheeled the youngster down a corridor, his distraught mum Elle, 32, feared he would lose his fight and she would walk out the same doors alone.
Kawasaki disease had caused his heart, arteries and other organs to become inflamed, and coronavirus was attacking his lungs, resulting in him being unconscious and on oxygen at times as medics fought to save his life.