A NHS nurse has recalled the moment she was left crying into her PPE after a patient struggling to breathe told her he didn't want to die as the first coronavirus wave hit the nation.
Jessica Filoteo was a cath lab nurse but 2020 was marked by the Covid-19 pandemic and her life changed after she was drafted up to the ICU wards at St Bartholomew's in London.
The 35-year-old battled coronavirus herself at the beginning of the pandemic in March but soon recovered to treat extremely sick patients in intensive care. “There were talks about being moved already in mid-March, and I got drafted mid-April.
It was really scary,” she told the Mirror Online. “I got sick the last week of March, from Covid-19. I was isolating then the day before I