17 Mar 2022

Auckland hospital intensive care doctor on Covid situation

From Checkpoint, 5:37 pm on 17 March 2022

There's 930 people in hospital with Covid today; 23 of them in ICU or a high dependency unit.

And the death curve is steepening, 10 reported today, bringing the total number of Covid related deaths to 151.

So how are people in hospital being treated for the virus? What's working, what's not and right now do we have access to the best medicines?

Intensive care specialist Dr Colin MCArthur from Auckland City Hospital talks to Lisa Owen.