The majority of patients being treated in intensive care in Gloucestershire are not vaccinated.
The hospital is currently running at full capacity, with Covid rates continuing to riseDoctors at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital say they are bracing themselves for the situation to get worse, with 68 people currently admitted, nine of whom are in critical care.Staff say they are already struggling to cope under the continued pressure.
A separate intensive care ward for Covid patients is now full and some are now having to be treated in the main intensive care area.Erica Chevis spent three weeks in intensive care after contracting Covid during a trip to Cardiff with friends "We were so complacent. We all went down to Cardiff on the train, none of us wore masks, walked round all day, had some food came back. The following day the kids came home and found me unresponsive on the floor, I woke up 3 weeks later."
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