ITV's new Covid drama Breathtaking is scarily true, says NHS doc Natalie Macdermott

GRITTY new Covid drama Breathtaking is hitting our screens from Monday the 19th of February 2024.

Based on the chronicles of frontline doctor Rachel Clarke, it is a searing account of life in a big city hospital thrown into turmoil as the virus spreads.

The ITV1 drama airs over three consecutive nights and stars Joanne Froggatt as under-pressure Dr Abbey Henderson.

It has already been hailed as one of the year’s most hard-hitting shows. But what do those health workers who actually experienced the pandemic think?

Dr Nathalie MacDermott, 42, from Cambridge, worked in a major London hospital during the coronavirus outbreak and contracted Covid twice.
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