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The headlines the british socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has appeared in court in the United States after being charged with helping the late paedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls. She has previously denied wrongdoing, as well as any knowledge of epsteins crimes. One of hong kongs leading pro democracy campaigners has fled the territory, following chinas introduction of sweeping new security powers. After britains offer of a pathway to citizenship for holders of a National Overseas passport, beijing has called on the United Kingdom to stop interfering in its domestic affairs. The uk is relaxing its quarantine policy for passengers arriving in england from countries judged to be lower risk. Initially germany, france, spain and italy are covered with a more comprehensive register of cleared nations expected to follow. Schools in england will return full time and at full capacity in september. The plans are based on keeping year groups separate from each other, to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. The so called bubbles will keep classes or year groups apart as much as possible during the school day, with different break and lunchtimes. Our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports from a school in northampton. The desks will all face forward, the teacher meant to keep two metres distance. In the courtyard, and on the field, i think that people will social distance. I think people have got the smarts to know that its to make it safer for everyone. I feel like there might be good and bad things about this, like going in, seeing people, yeah. But then, like, the worry about getting the virus again, or having another wave of the virus, that kind of makes it a little bit difficult. Come september, they will be sharing a desk. Social distancing will almost disappear. Their new bubble a year group of 240 teenagers. Its a natural instinct to go towards students and, even if they are youre desperately trying to keep two metres away from them, your reaction is if a students. Your guard might drop every now and then. This is how any confirmed covid cases in school would be handled. One case, and direct close contacts would self isolate. Two or more cases within a fortnight, and a larger group or even year group would self isolate. If an outbreak is confirmed, a mobile unit might test a class, year group, or the whole school. The head teacher relieved she has some flexibility, but still, she has to plan for a whole year group self isolating. We are planning to keep that Online Learning at the forefront of what we do, so that actually, should we have to adapt very quickly either to a local lockdown, like weve seen in leicester, or actually a case at the school, were still able to provide that education. Theyll be back, full time, full classrooms, with a warning from the top government doctor its not their behaviour in school, but what happens outside, that poses the greatest risk. Branwen jeffreys, bbc news. Now on bbc news, Philippa Thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic, and how covid i9 has changed their lives. Welcome to coronavirus your stories, a programme about how covid i9 is affecting the lives of people around the world. Im Philippa Thomas, and this week were looking at the Lasting Impact on medics on the frontline the tiredness, even the trauma, created by dealing with relentless crisis. Later well hear from a spanish lung doctor who got covid i9, got sick, and carried on treating her patients from quarantine. What has that done to her . We begin with what its like to be a first responder. When new york city became americas first virus epicentre, it staggered under the weight of infections and called in extra paramedics from outside, including melroy dcosta, from middletown, connecticut. So the moment i got the call, i was advised to pack as much as i possibly could and to expect anything under the sun. We were given very Little Information as to what to expect, because we just knew that the state of new york needed our help in any which way possible, and we were there to give it any way we possibly could. And when you drove into the city, when you reached manhattan, what were your first impressions, melroy . Nervous, in reality. Once again, we didnt know what to expect. We were responding with hundreds of ambulances from all over the country. Now, we were in a new city, in a new state, under a new system, working with people that we may never have met before, and we had to adapt very quickly to the system. Did you even know your way around . No, honestly, no. I had been to new york a handful of times, but i wouldnt consider myself confident within the city of new york, navigating through all of the streets to the designated hospitals. And at that time, new york was the coronavirus epicentre. There were rising numbers of covid infections. You were being called out to a lot of situations where you suspect the virus may be present. So how did you have to deal with that . How were you equipped . So the agencies we were working with had fully equipped us, to the best of their ability. And that included wearing masks, gowns, goggles, face shields, gloves anything they could possibly provide us to help keep ourselves protected. That is very hot and heavy when youre racing around new york. Absolutely, but at the end of the day, we better be protected from this coronavirus than, god forbid, be a patient and not be able to help the city and state of new york. Melroy, tell us about the first few days, the first time when you had a patient and you had to get them into hospital, and you see what its like inside hospitals in new york city. So the first few days were very hectic. Once again, we were trying to learn and adapt to the new system. But the first time walking into a new york hospital, it was very surreal for me. Because i had seen things on the news, on the media, i had read things in the newspaper. But seeing it up close and personal, where the hospitals were overloaded with patients, and the nurses and the physicians and other ems personnel were running around, trying to do the best to their ability, and seeing a lot of patients with difficulty breathing, other complaints, some with breathing tubes, others getting breathing tubes it made it very real. And to see the wide demographic of patients, sometimes i imagine what if that was me, and that it could be me at some point. It must be i know youre used to this, this is yourjob. But it must be such a contrast coming from the vehicle into a building, where as youre telling it, you look down a corridor and its full, its noisy. I mean, how does it hit you . You know, ive seen full hospitals, with full rooms. But to see the hospitals to this extent, much more than a lot of the hospitals could have handled, but theyre still intaking the patients to the best of their ability, it is nerve racking. Because there was nothing i have ever experienced in my six years of ems, nothing anybody i had ever talked to had experienced to this magnitude, and it was a very new experience for us, and a very frightening one at that. And at the end of the day, what did you do . How do you cope together . Luckily enough, we were with teams. The agencies we were with, they would pair us up in sometimes teams of six or 12, and we were able to kind of come together while properly socially distancing, and share experiences or swap stories, orjust talk about Everything Else but what was going on talk about sports or music, maybe reading, exercising, just trying to keep our mind off of the work involved. And at the end of the day, its something we kept in mind, but we couldnt fully involve ourselves in it, and keep that the only thought in our heads. We had to distract ourselves so we didnt become too overwhelmed with everything going on. I can understand that. In a sense, you need to protect yourselves when, if were talking about a city at the peak of coronavirus infections, there was a lot of fear out there, and for some people there was panic, too. Absolutely, and that went across not only the medical providers while doing theirjob, but some of the patients. And some of the patients were very fearful of potentially contracting this virus, and inhibiting them from going to the hospitals. And we had to advise them that, although the virus is very real and very much present within the city itself, it shouldnt inhibit anyone else from going to the hospital. And that in itself was a task. A lot of us are fearful of certain situations we walk into, but we still walk into them, doing what we can, because thats what were trained to do. Melroy, you are two years into being a paramedic, i know youve got emt experience from before. Did you feel, faced with what was happening in a city at the peak of coronavirus, i have enough experience to manage here . To be part of this awesome, awesome experience, just what happened, being away from home for over a month, being with providers that i may have met or may not have met, under a new city that ive only been to a handful of times and didnt really know much about it was overwhelming, ill be honest. It was very overwhelming, because everything was new but the medicine. The medicine i tried to remember all my experiences from at home, and tried to bring them along with me, and tried to adapt to things that we knew or different ways to treat these patients. So dealing with coronavirus and being in new york was prolonged for you. You spent a month on those emergency shifts, and now youre back in connecticut. Has it stayed with you in any way . Absolutely, the experiences have absolutely stayed with me. And ive tried to share some of my experiences and what i dealt with with some of my colleagues at home, just so they can understand what some of these patients present like, and how to manage them to the best of our ability. But obviously there are some things that i keep to myself, just because theyre very close and personal to me, and have somewhat changed me. Unfortunately one of our colleagues that was deployed, not from connecticut but from another state that went to new york, he ended up passing away. And at the beginning of this, nobody knew what to expect, but we all expected to go home. And unfortunately, our colleague did not go home, and that hits you. You know, you try to go help, and do what you can, and you want to come home at the end of the day. Who can you talk to, melroy . Who can you open up to about the after effects, when youve been through things that i mean, there may be things that you cant even share with us, when youve seen such a lot in such a condensed period of time. Who you can you talk to . Luckily i do have some colleagues that were sent with me that i can speak to. I do have support staff. My current place of employment, that has been very great at helping us through this. I am also lucky enough to keep in contact with some of the colleagues from the other states that were in the teams with me, as well. But sometimes its tough. Its tough to remember some of the things we saw and some of the things we dealt with, and its. It gets difficult at times. And more generally, given the dangers of trauma to frontline workers, like yourself and others, what would you say about that . Because that seems to us to be such a big risk. There are a lot of different types of trauma, and medical providers, especially in emergency services, we run into a lot of scenes. You know, some are safer scenes than others, and we do see a lot of things. And i know in our region of the us, as im sure other parts of the us, mental health is becoming very, very big. And its something we need to keep in the back of our mind, that were not were not invincible. There are things that get to us. Paramedic melroy dcosta, sharing his experience of the frontline and the fallout. Im Philippa Thomas, and youre watching coronavirus your stories, a programme about how covid i9 is changing lives around the world. Next, one of the experts most exposed to the virus. Eva polverino is a pulmonologist from the european respiratory society. She was working flat out at hospital vall dhebron in barcelona to save her Covid Patients when she caught it herself, and kept on working from quarantine. She told me what it was like working at the peak of the crisis. First you accept the situation and then you react, dealing with problems immediately step by step. Every day there was something new, a new problem to face along with all the others, we were trying to find solutions and it was a great teamwork for the hospital. Everyone in the hospital was collaborating somehow. Not only pulmonologists like me but any kind of doctor, nurse, any professional worker. So you are italian, hearing from italy, working in spain and you knew something bad was coming. Could you describe to us what it was like going into those wards at that time . It was almost unbelievable because i have been working for many years in respiratory infections and in the past we had other threats like mers and sars and we did not expect this new viral infection to come to europe and not in this way. Italy has a good Healthcare System so it was difficult to accept what my friends and colleagues in italy were saying that people were dying. The mortality rate was higher than what we expected so we had to listen to them and realise the same thing, the same reality was coming to us in spain and injust a few days, a week we had the same situation in spain. So the first days of covid, i went to my boss to ask for some contacts to help to find ventilators to send to italy and after a few days we needed those ventilators in our hospital so imagine it was a tremendous shock for everybody. All these new beds, new wards, icus became ten times bigger thanit had been in terms of numbers of bed so everyone was involved. And for you from the start did you think about the fact you would have to shield your partner . Because you work with the sickest people. Yes. As we received the first patients, covid positive in the hospital i decided to go and confine myself. I told my husband that he will sleep in one room and i will sleep in a different room and the same for the bathroom. You will use the kitchen and then i will use it. Just one and we have to start thinking of the possibility that i could get sick at some time. It was about one month before i really got infected with covid i9. So it was good because he never got infected. You were able to protect him and you were, essentially, alone, in a sense, for a month and then you got the virus. Yes. I got it. Yes. I started to feel feverish and i thought oh, my god. What else could it be . Difficult. Covid i9 is everywhere. It was a shock and you think only 5 of people with covid i9 die but you could be one of those people who could die, you know . You are human. Notjust a doctor, you are a person and a patient at that time. I had to go to hospital because i was not good at all. I tried to stay at home but i needed some blood test and confirmation. I did not have any lung involvement but i have to say i had Everything Else that this virus could have. So i had to stay alone in that small room for another month, so lonely for two months. It is a lonely time especially when you are dealing with disease, with your own fears and the fears of everyone in trying to keep your family safe. So, eva, you are hit by covid i9 and you felt very ill or weak but you carry on working. What patients were you dealing with and how could you work . I usually deal with chronic patients and immuno deficient patients who usually receive intravenal serums on a monthly basis so i had to remind them to go to the hospital. Nobody wanted to, so for those who had to receive a specific treatment, i had to insist that they go to hospital and get their treatment and for the others they were scared about the virus, they had a visit planned for that date and i was trying to do everything on the phone, explain the situation. I couldnt tell them that i was sick but i tried to do my work. You continued in your professional life as a doctor even while you feel sick and perhaps scared. I had to. The main problem was to manage my energy because i like to sleep, wake up after a few hours and then a few hours on the phone and then i had to sleep again. So that help me somehow. I felt i was useful because it is difficult, all your colleagues are fighting with this infection and you feel useless so somehow i was trying to do my part of the job and it helped me. When you were first working at the hospital and decided you had to shield your family, what was that like . It was sad. It was difficult but i knew i had to do it because i did not want to pass the infection to anybody at home, any friend, anybody. It was necessary but it was hard because when you face such a difficult situation, you need, more than ever, you know, your family at your side so it is difficult. I think we all decided, because many of my colleagues did the same, and we all decided muchly it was necessary but, of course it is difficult. But you do it, it is yourjob. You chose this job and you have to do it. So when you went into self isolation at home, what were you missing . Physical contact with my husband, with my dog. A hug. Eating together. Watching tv together, just simple and things of life. Sharing a good conversation with your friend but you are thinking of Something Else that is not disease, you know . Healthcare problems and patients, a normal life. Did you let yourself cry . Oh, idid and i am happy i did because i really needed it and i am sure almost all of my colleagues also cried because you need to do it. It is a release. You need it because the stress is incredible. You are working and thinking of the disease every day, all the time you are awake. I had to be on the phone 16 hours a day with patients, so the stress is hard because you feel sick and at least three times i was alone in my room and started to cry and then i felt much better. Do you see colleagues that you think are traumatised by what they are dealing with . I think most of us have some kind of trauma with this. There is a generalfeeling of frustration and it is difficult to manage the fact that you have to think of yourself, not only your patients but as a doctor you are constantly concentrating on patients. And it is difficult. But most of us have some psychological effect like frustration or tiredness or, whatever. Sleeping difficulties or enjoyment, you know, simple things of life. And we will need some time. It was like being in war. You are fighting and after the war is finished you have to look at your body and think broken and you have to look at yourself, you look at yourself in the mirror and you realise you are not exactly as you were before the war. It is not easy. And i think all of us, in spain there was a statistic saying that four of five Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> has appeared in court in the United States<\/a> after being charged with helping the late paedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> to sexually abuse underage girls. She has previously denied wrongdoing, as well as any knowledge of epsteins crimes. One of hong kongs leading pro democracy campaigners has fled the territory, following chinas introduction of sweeping new security powers. After britains offer of a pathway to citizenship for holders of a National Overseas<\/a> passport, beijing has called on the United Kingdom<\/a> to stop interfering in its domestic affairs. The uk is relaxing its quarantine policy for passengers arriving in england from countries judged to be lower risk. Initially germany, france, spain and italy are covered with a more comprehensive register of cleared nations expected to follow. Schools in england\rwill return full time and at full capacity in september. The plans are based on keeping year groups separate from each other, to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. The so called bubbles will keep classes or year groups apart as much as possible during the school day, with different break and lunchtimes. Our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports from a school in northampton. The desks will all face forward, the teacher meant to keep two metres distance. In the courtyard, and on the field, i think that people will social distance. I think people have got the smarts to know that its to make it safer for everyone. I feel like there might be good and bad things about this, like going in, seeing people, yeah. But then, like, the worry about getting the virus again, or having\ranother wave of the virus, that kind of makes it a little bit difficult. Come september, they will be sharing a desk. Social distancing will almost disappear. Their new bubble a year group of 240 teenagers. Its a natural instinct to go towards students and, even if they are youre desperately trying to keep two metres away from them, your reaction is if a students. Your guard might drop every now and then. This is how any confirmed covid cases in school would be handled. One case, and direct close contacts would self isolate. Two or more cases within a fortnight, and a larger group or even year group would self isolate. If an outbreak is confirmed, a mobile unit might test a class, year group, or the whole school. The head teacher relieved\rshe has some flexibility, but still, she has to plan for a whole year group self isolating. We are planning to keep that Online Learning<\/a> at the forefront of what we do, so that actually, should we have to adapt very quickly either to a local lockdown, like weve seen in leicester, or actually a case at the school, were still able to provide that education. Theyll be back, full time, full classrooms, with a warning from the top government doctor its not their behaviour in school, but what happens outside, that poses the greatest risk. Branwen jeffreys, bbc news. Now on bbc news, Philippa Thomas<\/a> hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic, and how covid i9 has changed their lives. Welcome to coronavirus your stories, a programme about how covid i9 is affecting the lives of people around the world. Im Philippa Thomas<\/a>, and this week were looking at the Lasting Impact<\/a> on medics on the frontline the tiredness, even the trauma, created by dealing with relentless crisis. Later well hear from a spanish lung doctor who got covid i9, got sick, and carried on treating her patients from quarantine. What has that done to her . We begin with what its like to be a first responder. When new york city became americas first virus epicentre, it staggered under the weight of infections and called in extra paramedics from outside, including melroy dcosta, from middletown, connecticut. So the moment i got the call,\ri was advised to pack as much as i possibly could and to expect anything under the sun. We were given very Little Information<\/a> as to what to expect, because we just knew that the state of new york needed our help in any which way possible, and we were there to give it any way we possibly could. And when you drove into the city, when you reached manhattan, what were your first impressions, melroy . Nervous, in reality. Once again, we didnt know what to expect. We were responding with hundreds of ambulances from all over the country. Now, we were in a new city, in a new state, under a new system, working with people that we may never have met before, and we had to adapt very quickly to the system. Did you even know your way around . No, honestly, no. I had been to new york a handful of times, but i wouldnt consider myself confident within the city of new york, navigating through all of the streets to the designated hospitals. And at that time, new york\rwas the coronavirus epicentre. There were rising numbers of covid infections. You were being called out to a lot of situations where you suspect the virus may be present. So how did you have to deal with that . How were you equipped . So the agencies we were working with had fully equipped us, to the best of their ability. And that included wearing masks, gowns, goggles, face shields, gloves anything they could possibly provide us to help keep ourselves protected. That is very hot and heavy when youre racing around new york. Absolutely, but at the end of the day, we better be protected from this coronavirus than, god forbid, be a patient and not be able to help the city and state of new york. Melroy, tell us about the first few days, the first time when you had a patient and you had to get them into hospital, and you see what its like inside hospitals in new york city. So the first few days were very hectic. Once again, we were trying to learn and adapt to the new system. But the first time walking into a new york hospital, it was very surreal for me. Because i had seen things on the news, on the media, i had read things in the newspaper. But seeing it up close and personal, where the hospitals were overloaded with patients, and the nurses and the physicians and other ems personnel were running around, trying to do the best to their ability, and seeing a lot of patients with difficulty breathing, other complaints, some with breathing tubes, others getting breathing tubes it made it very real. And to see the wide demographic of patients, sometimes i imagine what if that was me, and that it could be me at some point. It must be i know youre used to this, this is yourjob. But it must be such a contrast coming from the vehicle into a building, where as youre telling it, you look down a corridor and its full, its noisy. I mean, how does it hit you . You know, ive seen full hospitals, with full rooms. But to see the hospitals to this extent, much more than a lot of the hospitals could have handled, but theyre still intaking the patients to the best of their ability, it is nerve racking. Because there was nothing i have ever experienced in my six years of ems, nothing anybody i had ever talked to had experienced to this magnitude, and it was a very new experience for us, and a very frightening one at that. And at the end of the day, what did you do . How do you cope together . Luckily enough, we were with teams. The agencies we were with, they would pair us up in sometimes teams of six or 12, and we were able to kind of come together\rwhile properly socially distancing, and share experiences or swap stories, orjust talk about Everything Else<\/a> but what was going on talk about sports or music, maybe reading, exercising, just trying to keep our mind off of the work involved. And at the end of the day, its something we kept in mind, but we couldnt fully involve ourselves in it, and keep that the only thought in our heads. We had to distract ourselves so we didnt become too overwhelmed with everything going on. I can understand that. In a sense, you need to protect yourselves when, if were talking about a city at the peak of coronavirus infections, there was a lot of fear out there, and for some people there was panic, too. Absolutely, and that went across not\ronly the medical providers while doing theirjob, but some of the patients. And some of the patients were very fearful of potentially contracting this virus, and inhibiting them from going to the hospitals. And we had to advise them that, although the virus is very real and very much present within the city itself, it shouldnt inhibit anyone else from going to the hospital. And that in itself was a task. A lot of us are fearful of certain situations we walk into, but we still walk into them, doing what we can, because thats what were trained to do. Melroy, you are two years into being a paramedic, i know youve got emt experience from before. Did you feel, faced with what was happening in a city at the peak of coronavirus, i have enough experience to manage here . To be part of this awesome, awesome experience, just what happened, being away from home for over a month, being with providers that i may have met or may not have met, under a new city that ive only been\rto a handful of times and didnt really know much about it was overwhelming, ill be honest. It was very overwhelming, because everything was new but the medicine. The medicine i tried to remember all my experiences from at home, and tried to bring them along with me, and tried to adapt to things that we knew or different ways to treat these patients. So dealing with coronavirus and being in new york was prolonged for you. You spent a month on those emergency shifts, and now youre back in connecticut. Has it stayed with you in any way . Absolutely, the experiences have absolutely stayed with me. And ive tried to share some of my experiences and what i dealt with with some of my colleagues at home, just so they can understand what some of these patients present like, and how to manage them to the best of our ability. But obviously there are some things that i keep to myself, just because theyre very close and personal to me, and have somewhat changed me. Unfortunately one of our colleagues that was deployed, not from connecticut but from another state that went to new york, he ended up passing away. And at the beginning of this, nobody knew what to expect, but we all expected to go home. And unfortunately, our colleague did not go home, and that hits you. You know, you try to go help, and do what you can, and you want to come home at the end of the day. Who can you talk to, melroy . Who can you open up to about the after effects, when youve been through things that i mean, there may be things that you cant even share with us, when youve seen such a lot in such a condensed period of time. Who you can you talk to . Luckily i do have some colleagues that were sent with me that i can speak to. I do have support staff. My current place of employment, that has been very great at helping us through this. I am also lucky enough to keep in contact with some of the colleagues from the other states that were in the teams with me, as well. But sometimes its tough. Its tough to remember some of the things we saw and some of the things we dealt with, and its. It gets difficult at times. And more generally, given the dangers of trauma to frontline workers, like yourself and others, what would you say about that . Because that seems to us to be such a big risk. There are a lot of different types of trauma, and medical providers, especially in emergency services, we run into a lot of scenes. You know, some are safer scenes than others, and we do see a lot of things. And i know in our region of the us, as im sure other parts of the us,\rmental health is becoming very, very big. And its something we need to keep in the back of our mind, that were not were not invincible. There are things that get to us. Paramedic melroy dcosta, sharing his experience of the frontline and the fallout. Im Philippa Thomas<\/a>, and youre watching coronavirus your stories, a programme about how covid i9 is changing lives around the world. Next, one of the experts most exposed to the virus. Eva polverino is a pulmonologist from the european respiratory society. She was working flat out at hospital vall dhebron in barcelona to save her Covid Patients<\/a> when she caught it herself, and kept on working from quarantine. She told me what it was like working at the peak of the crisis. First you accept the situation and then you react, dealing\rwith problems immediately step by step. Every day there was something new, a new problem to face along with all the others, we were trying to find solutions and it was a great teamwork for the hospital. Everyone in the hospital was collaborating somehow. Not only pulmonologists like me but any kind of doctor, nurse, any professional worker. So you are italian, hearing from italy, working in spain and you knew something bad was coming. Could you describe to us what it was like going into those wards at that time . It was almost unbelievable because i have been working for many years in respiratory infections and in the past we had other threats like mers and sars\rand we did not expect this new viral infection to come to europe and not in this way. Italy has a good Healthcare System<\/a> so it was difficult to accept what my friends and colleagues in italy were saying that people were dying. The mortality rate was higher than what we expected so we had to listen to them and realise the same thing, the same reality was coming to us in spain and injust a few days, a week we had the same situation in spain. So the first days of covid, i went to my boss to ask for some contacts to help to find ventilators to send to italy and after a few days we needed those ventilators in our hospital so imagine it was a tremendous shock for everybody. All these new beds, new wards, icus became ten times bigger thanit had been in terms of numbers of bed\rso everyone was involved. And for you from the start did you think about the fact you would have to shield your partner . Because you work with the sickest people. Yes. As we received the first patients, covid positive in the hospital i decided to go and confine myself. I told my husband that he will sleep in one room and i will sleep in a different room and the same for the bathroom. You will use the kitchen and then i will use it. Just one and we have to start thinking of the possibility that i could get sick at some time. It was about one month before i really got infected with covid i9. So it was good because he never got infected. You were able to protect him and you were, essentially, alone, in a sense, for a month and then you got the virus. Yes. I got it. Yes. I started to feel feverish and i thought oh, my god. What else could it be . Difficult. Covid i9 is everywhere. It was a shock and you think only 5 of people with covid i9 die but you could be one of those people who could die, you know . You are human. Notjust a doctor, you are a person and a patient at that time. I had to go to hospital because i was not good at all. I tried to stay at home but i needed some blood test and confirmation. I did not have any lung involvement but i have to say i had Everything Else<\/a> that this virus could have. So i had to stay alone in that small room for another month, so lonely for two months. It is a lonely time especially when you are dealing with disease, with your own fears and the fears of everyone in trying to keep your family safe. So, eva, you are hit by covid i9 and you felt very ill or weak but you carry on working. What patients were you dealing with and how could you work . I usually deal with chronic patients and immuno deficient patients who usually receive intravenal serums on a monthly basis so i had to remind them to go to the hospital. Nobody wanted to, so for those who had to receive a specific treatment, i had to insist that they go to hospital and get their treatment and for the others they were scared about the virus, they had a visit planned for that date\rand i was trying to do everything on the phone, explain the situation. I couldnt tell them that i was sick but i tried to do my work. You continued in your professional life as a doctor even while you feel sick and perhaps scared. I had to. The main problem was to manage my energy because i like to sleep, wake up after a few hours and then a few hours on the phone and then i had to sleep again. So that help me somehow. I felt i was useful because it is difficult, all your colleagues are fighting with this infection and you feel useless so somehow i was trying to do my part of the job and it helped me. When you were first working at the hospital and decided you had to shield your family,\rwhat was that like . It was sad. It was difficult but i knew i had to do it because i did not want to pass the infection to anybody at home, any friend, anybody. It was necessary but it was hard because when you face such a difficult situation, you need, more than ever, you know, your family at your side so it is difficult. I think we all decided, because many of my colleagues did the same, and we all decided muchly it was necessary but, of course it is difficult. But you do it, it is yourjob. You chose this job and you have to do it. So when you went into self isolation at home, what were you missing . Physical contact with my husband, with my dog. A hug. Eating together. Watching tv together, just simple and things of life. Sharing a good conversation with your friend but you are thinking of Something Else<\/a> that is not disease, you know . Healthcare problems and patients, a normal life. Did you let yourself cry . Oh, idid and i am happy i did because i really needed it and i am sure almost all of my colleagues also cried because you need to do it. It is a release. You need it because the stress is incredible. You are working and thinking of the disease every day, all the time you are awake. I had to be on the phone 16 hours a day with patients, so the stress is hard because you feel sick and at least three times i was alone in my room and started to cry and then i felt much better. Do you see colleagues that you think are traumatised by what they are dealing with . I think most of us have some kind of trauma with this. There is a generalfeeling of frustration and it is difficult to manage the fact that you have to think of yourself, not only your patients but as a doctor you are constantly concentrating on patients. And it is difficult. But most of us have some psychological effect like frustration or tiredness or, whatever. Sleeping difficulties or enjoyment, you know, simple things of life. And we will need some time. It was like being in war. You are fighting and after the war is finished you have to look at your body and think broken and you have to look at yourself, you look at yourself in the mirror and you realise you are not exactly as you were before the war. It is not easy. And i think all of us, in spain there was a statistic saying that four of five Health Professional<\/a> had problems relating to the covid situation, to covid i9 and the situation we face. So all of us, we managed to talk about it, lets avoid it,\rlets go on. What if there is a second wave . We dont know. And i must say possibly nobody knows. If somebody says i am sure it will be this way or this other way, they are lying. The virus has surprised us in many ways, all the time. It is not possible. It is clear we now know how to manage the situation, confinement, lockdown, follow patients and their potential contacts so that we are more prepared than we were at the beginning. We know what fires it can cause. What the fires of patients are. So we can also manage patients better. But a second wave, it is difficult to answer. That was pulmonologist Eva Polverino<\/a> in barcelona, ending this programme on the Lasting Impact<\/a> of the crisis on frontline workers. Thank you forjoining us. Good morning. Were halfway through 2020. Its supposed to be through the middle of summer but the weather is very un summerlike, unfortunately at the moment. As you can see through thursday afternoon, across the midlands and south east england, we had a rash of showers and some of those were heavy and thundery with it as well. We did close the day on thursday with a window of finer weather out to the west, but look what is waiting in the wings. More cloud and more rain on its way, an area of low pressure will push in over the next few hours, bringing some heavy rain with it and if we look\rout into the atlantic, we can see that it is fairly extensive and will have a Conveyor Belt<\/a> of wet and perhaps pretty windy weather for this time of year. It will, however, be a relatively mild start. Double digits with the wind direction coming from the southwest with more of a humid feel developing across the country. Some of the rain through Northern Ireland<\/a> and western Scotland First<\/a> thing in the morning will be quite heavy. Were going to see a couple of inches of rain maybe more to Higher Ground<\/a> as we going into the afternoon and it starts to pep up across wales as well. So, this is a snapshot into the afternoon, scattered sharp showers through the northern isles. Central and southern parts of scotland will see heavier rain, particularly the further west you are, the rain easing a touch into Northern Ireland<\/a> with some heavier bursts across wales and southwest england. Maybe the midlands and the southeast of england staying largely dry for much of the day, and if that happens, 21 degrees will be the high. We will see more wet weather feeding in particularly through Northern Ireland<\/a>, southern scotland and Northern England<\/a> and it will stay pretty breezy to the south in particular. And because that wind direction again from the southwest, it will drag up some pretty humid air with it, so, despite the cloud,\ryou will notice the feel when youre stepping outside. Some of that rain fairly persistent through Northern Ireland<\/a>, southern scotland, and in northwest england and wales, and just like last weekend, pretty windy with it and unusually windy for this time of year with gusts in excess of potentially 30 miles an hour. We do manage to get a few breaks in the cloud and there will be very few and then temperatures will likely peak at 22 or 23 degrees. That humidity will start to ease for the second half of the weekend as the wind direction changes to more of a northwesterly. So, a cooler source but weather will start to dry up at the beginning of next week. Take care. Welcome to bbc news, im Lewis Vaughan<\/a> jones. Our top stories us prosecuters charge the british socialite Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> with grooming young girls for her former boyfriend, the convicted paedophileJeffrey Epstein<\/a>. She pretended to be a woman they could trust. All the while, she was setting them up to be sexually abused by epstein, and in some cases, by maxwell herself. Texas makes wearing a face masks compulsory across much of the state, as covid i9 cases continue to soar. We speak to one of hong kongs leading pro democracy campaigners, who has fled the territory following chinas imposition of a new security law. 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