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Breathtaking viewers admit they are struggling to watch 'harrowing' ITV Covid drama which has left them 'simultaneously raging and sobbing'
Viewers of the ITV drama Breathtaking illustrating the horrors NHS workers endured during the pandemic have admitted they are struggling to watch the series.
Hauntingly realistic scenes in Tuesdays' episode depict medics being confronted over the disastrous Covid discharge policy, which is blamed for killing thousands of care home residents. Under guidance designed to free up NHS beds ahead of an expected Covid wave, thousands of unswabbed hospitalised patients were discharged into care homes – despite them being potentially infected. Just days later, Dr Henderson – played by Joanne Froggatt – is branded a 'murderer' by a woman whose father is the eleventh Covid case in the home since the infected patient was discharged.
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