Professor Kevin Fong described hospital staff members he encountered as being in “total bits” during his testimony.
During a visit in December 2020, the former National Clinical Advisor for Emergency Preparedness at NHS England recounted a talk with an intensive care physician.
I instantly asked him how things had been going and… He retorted, “I’ll never forget,” adding that it felt like a terrorist assault every day since it began and that we had no idea when they would end.
Prof. Fong frequently sobbed on the stand as she discussed Covid as the “biggest national emergency this country has faced since World War Two.”
On behalf of NHS England, Prof. Fong, a consultant anesthetist, made about 40 visits to the “hardest hit” intensive care units during the epidemic to provide peer support to the medical staff members working there.
Reports he authored were forwarded to higher-ranking officials, such as Prof. Sir Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer.
The “scale of death,” according to him, is “very difficult to capture in the figures.”
It was very, really amazing. One of the nurses told me they became bored of packing bodies in body bags when we heard them talking about patients “raining from the sky.”
