I told the woman in the next bed she d be OK – she died hours later
Our photographer s dispatch from the Covid wards at Ealing Hospital, where people in their 30s, 40s and 50s are fighting for their lives
24 January 2021 • 8:00pm
Ealing Hospital currently has 170 Covid patients, 10 of which are in the Intensive Care Unit
Credit: Heathcliff O Malley for the Telegraph
Elisabeth Cook is sitting up in a chair next to her hospital bed for the first time in ten days. Frail and exhausted, with a nasal cannula still supplementing her oxygen, she looks over to the bed next to hers which now lies empty.