Documenting NHS workers on the frontline of the pandemic
As the UK enters the third act of the coronavirus crisis, photographer Slater King reflects on what it was like to be at the forefront of the pandemic last year, when he began shooting portraits of NHS staff at London’s Whittington Hospital
14/01/2021
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From daily death tolls to data visualisations, statistics have been at the heart of our evolving understanding of coronavirus over the past year. One of the most shocking figures to emerge recently is that NHS staff suffered more casualties in the first six months of the pandemic than the British armed forces did during 12 years of war in Afghanistan, and six years of war in Iraq, combined.