Hospitals and Healthcare

Melissa Green and her partner Dion Mason are young and fit, but both ended up in hospital after contracting COVID-19, which he describes as feeling like "a 200-kilogram man standing on your chest".

The narrative is that Covid-19 patients are either hospitalized near death, or ride out a ‘mild’ Covid flu at home. The reality is more complex

Nigel Hart, 46, has had 15 heart attacks, his kidneys don't work and he's blind in one eye. He is also living inside a nursing home with a COVID-19 outbreak.

My mantra used to be “Stage IV cancer! Could it get any worse?” Then it got worse.

Christina Heywood is struggling with her health after catching COVID-19 in a rehabilitation centre while recovering from a new hip. She says it's ridiculous that health officials haven't released the figures for how many patients caught the virus in hospital.

For ‘long-haulers’, a negative coronavirus test doesn’t signal the start of normal life, but an uncharted road to recovery with lingering symptoms

First, Janet Mendez received a bill for $31,165. The next one was impossible to ignore.

Being unable to hold your loved one’s hand or kiss them goodbye as they die alone in a hospital bed is perhaps the most brutal and devastating hallmark of coronavirus.