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Pandemic through the eyes of infectious disease expert who caught long Covid We did everything we could to protect ourselves, but it’s apparent now that healthcare workers weren’t protected to the extent they could have been
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I first heard about the novel coronavirus on New Year’s Eve, 2019 – although the virus was yet to be identified. ProMed, an organisation that sends alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, sent an urgent request for information about four patients in Wuhan, China, who were being treated for “pneumonia of unknown cause”. The media soon got wind of the story, and from then until the end of February, I spent most of my time being interviewed.
From my previous experience of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the cholera epidemic in Haiti, I learned that one of the most important things about managing an outbreak is keeping people calm and ensuring they have accurate information on which they can take action to protect themselves and their families.
William Harkness co-founded a charity enabling surgeons across the word to share their knowledge online
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My good friend William Harkness, who has died aged 66 of lymphoma cancer, was one of the leading paediatric neurosurgeons of his generation. A caring clinician and gifted surgeon, he was also enormous fun and a great friend.
William was born in Aldershot, the son of Jack and June (nee Pearce) Harkness. His father was a land agent and his parents ran a hotel in Anglesey, which he described as being like Fawlty Towers. William was educated at Eton and qualified in medicine at the University of Birmingham in 1979. He did neurosurgical training at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, completing in 1989.
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