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Corona patient Meier
Photo: Nuremberg Hospital
Anyone who would like to speak to a patient in the Covid intensive care unit at Klinikum Nürnberg Nord can leave a number for a video call there. A carer or nurse then calls back and brings an iPad to the hospital bed, just like this Friday evening in mid-February. "We'll be with her in a moment," says the man who makes the virtual contact in a blue protective suit and face visor with an FFP2 mask. He carries the iPad through the hospital corridors and a hygiene lock into the rooms with the intensive care beds. You can see lots of shaky images of IV stands, tubes and medical supplies. Barbara Meier is already waiting, the 60-year-old lies in bed with her upper body erect. There are cannulas in her left arm, her circulation is continuously monitored, and a tube runs over her face, which supplies her with high-dose oxygen. She speaks slowly, sometimes having to breathe between two words several times. But she would like to report what it means to get Covid-19 - and how fatal her error was.
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