So for the foreseeable future, the most important task of the desperately sick central state will be simply to survive.

The kids are all desperately sick, throwing up.

It was like carrying a desperately sick man.

The kids are all desperately sick, throwing up after I gave them the virus.

Then he raised his head away from his hands and I saw the face of a man who looked desperately sick, or in terrible pain.

The children were desperately sick, but no one died except one of the old men.

I lied to get them to come home, telling my mother's maid I was desperately sick.

The selling end of the business is just as dangerous, because even a desperately sick man sometimes has a conscience.

He said desperately sick people had been left for hours waiting on trolleys, with even those requiring intensive care enduring long delays.

And often the mishaps involve desperately sick patients who might have died even if everything had been done perfectly.