I am a nurse and was working in Addenbrooke's Hospital's emergency department through to around 11 March 2020, when I was instructed by my respiratory team to shield. Even before I left work that Wednesday, and I remember it well, I could see patients arriving by ambulance. They were very poorly, symptomatic of Covid-19. My daughter is a doctor who was working at Northwick Park at that time, so I was well abreast of the evolving situation. I was also aware that any respiratory virus attacking the alveoli and causing acute respiratory distress syndrome would be bad news for patients like mysel...