As a Covid-19 victim that witnessed agonising deaths and grieving families and friends at work due to pandemic restrictions, I deeply realised that no one can understand how you truly feel until they get in your shoes and experience it the way you did….
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Silver linings
11th January 2022When we heard the first time about covid it seemed to be just an incident in China and it wouldn’t bother us at all…
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A band of brothers
7th January 2022I was asked early on to be part of the COVID team. I was happy to do this despite being deemed medium / high risk myself.
Read moreThen came New Year’s Eve, a day I will never forget…
4th January 2022I will never forget how it felt donning for the first time. My hands shaking and the tension in the air palpable as I pulled down my visor and took a deep breath and pushed the ITU doors open….
Read moreLaboratories told of an ‘evolving situation’ in January 2020
4th January 2022My COVID-19 story began in January 2020 with PHE bulletins informing laboratories in the UK of an “evolving situation”….
Read moreReflections of a Respiratory Consultant
4th January 2022Having known about MERS and SARS outbreaks from over a decade ago, I understood the potential gravity but only when I saw a video from a Wuhan hospital did it become clear what was happening & potentially how underprepared we may be.
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Research at surge speed
18th November 2021My lasting memory of the year is not a hospital memory but of the first urgent Covid-19 related application we had at the Brighton and Sussex Research Ethics Committee….
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