Covid drugs research nurse 'terrified' of first patients

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Scunthorpe-based Dot Hutchinson says the beginning of the pandemic was the 'start of the unknown'.

Drone footage shows East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at the start of the first lockdown

The nurse was involved in testing a number of treatments including malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, blood plasma - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and"We were in full PPE, going to see the patients getting all the information that we need to decide whether any of these new drugs were going to be applicable for them.

"We knew that this was something that needed to be done desperately quickly to try and help a lot of these patients, especially in the first wave." The nurse said she was terrified when she met the first Covid patient and she and her team were "very nervous" from the moment they started working on the"I remember walking up there [in] trepidation and this lovely lady was behind glass, there was PPE, there were people scurrying about and it just felt like this is the start of [the unknown]."I wouldn't like to repeat those two years.

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