Inside an ICU: How doctors pull critically ill patients back from the brink of death

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    • Hospitals treating critically ill COVID-19 patients remain the last battlefield in Wuhan. Different infections and organ failures caused by the novel coronavirus made their conditions particularly hard to treat. A professional team from China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing came to Wuhan to treat the most critically ill in early February.

    In this documentary, reporter Li Jingjing takes you to see those medics’ and two patients’ life inside the ICU and how are they fighting this tough war.

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