27/11/2020
Episode 9: Fighting Covid-19 on the frontlines to save critically ill patients - what must that be like? As an NHS doctor in the UK seconded to emergency intensive care wards, Dom Pimenta was right there as the first tidal wave broke over London, UK.
And with that began a mission, first by founding Help Them Help Us to equip his fellow healthcare professionals with the support and resources they needed. And now by pursuing the misinformation through new thinktank The Modern Society Initiative that is swirling around Covid-19, misinformation potentially as deadly as the virus itself with the ability to cause of many hundreds of thousands more deaths.
In this fascinating conversation, we hear Dr Dom’s first-hand perspective on the rapidly evolving reality of public health through this pandemic. From the visceral, practical reality of ‘charging through corridors’ setting up new intensive care wards and the emotions from discharging the first recovered patients, into the curiosity of the human condition - why do not just laypeople but also medics, scientists and even epidemiologists find themselves falling for the allure of misinformation.
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Listen now (56 min) | Fighting Covid-19 on the frontlines to save critically ill patients - what must that be like? As an NHS doctor in the UK seconded to emergency intensive care wards, Dr Dominic Pimenta was right there as the first tidal wave broke over London, UK. And with that began a mission,
