A GLOUCESTERSHIRE mum has issued a passionate plea as she recovers from coronavirus in intensive care. Allie Sherlock, 44, was told by staff at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital that she would have died had she not been placed on a ventilator. The mum of two who tested positive on Christmas Day has pleaded with people to follow the rules after watching two patients die in nearby beds. In a video shot from her hospital bed by Dr David Windsor, Critical Care lead at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Allie said: It s been horrendous. My whole family tested positive, I have a six-year-old, an eight-year-old, a 70-year-old mother and her husband with asthma.
Updated: 8 Jan 2021, 10:16
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A COVID-stricken mum issued a harrowing appeal from intensive care after two patients in the beds either side of her
died.
Allie Sherlock said the virus had floored her on Christmas Day as she spoke on camera from her hospital bed.
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Allie Sherlock said the virus had floored her on Christmas DayCredit: GloucestershireLive/BPM
Allie s entire family - including her sons aged six and eight, her 70-year-old mum and husband with asthma, have all tested positive for Covid-19.
And doctors told the mum-of-two, who has been at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for two weeks, she would have died from the bug if she hadn t been put on a ventilator.
Mum s harrowing plea from Gloucestershire Royal Hospital after nearly dying from Covid I have seen two people die in beds either side of me while I ve been in this hospital, and not elderly people either. People with families, children
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