University Hospital Monklands ICU During The Covid-19 Pandemic

AIRDRIE, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 05: Staff at University Hospital Monklands attempt to prone a Covid-positive patient on the ICU ward on February 5, 2021 in Airdrie, Scotland. Proning is the act of placing patients in respiratory distress onto their stomachs in intensive care and has become a familiar part of treatment for Covid patients. The numbers of patients with Coronavirus at Lanarkshire hospitals hit record levels during Scotland's second wave of the pandemic with ICU staff members left feeling ‘physically and emotionally drained’. Patients admitted to Monklands ICU are much younger during this second wave, many with no underlying health conditions, which differ from the first wave where patients were more likely to be elderly and often ill before they contracted the virus. Figures published by Public Health Scotland on February 5 showed that 61 more Covid-positive patients who tested positive have died bringing the total to 6,383 and the total confirming as positive has risen by 895 to 184,313. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)