Front line medical staff are facing 'insufferable' abuse from Covid-19 deniers and anti-vaxxers as they try to save the lives of patients struck down by the virus, a top nurse has told.
Nicki Credland, a leading emergency care nurse, also spoke out of the horror stories emerging from wards with one dying patient begging to receive a vaccine and a relative of a Covid patient hurling abuse at staff after not being allowed to visit them in hospital due to also having the disease.
Ms Credland, who works as a nurse in Hull as well as being a lecturer at the University of Hull, told of how abuse of staff was now part of the trauma they face every day as they brace for another influx of patients amid the rising Omicron variant crisis, as