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The Louisa Jordan Nightingale hospital sits on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, housed in the hangar-like exhibition centre. I had watched the building’s speedy transformation last spring and witnessed the ominous addition of two huge gleaming white oxygen tanks attached to the exterior. Despite the subsequent far too high Covid death rate, the hospital has never been called into action – until now.
I was very moved as I stood in the vaccine queue, which trailed past all the empty bays, each one kitted out with multiple power points, sanitising stations and Perspex screens, ready for patients who thankfully never came. Instead, we sat in the same bays to be inoculated, and I felt humbled by the effort of so many of the staff who delivered such a smooth operation with good humour and kindness. I waited, ready to be vaccinated by a young dentist, while he and a nurse carefully discussed the doses in each vial, determined that none should be wasted. ....

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