dame donna kinnair, dr caroline walker, thank you both i lifts you. dame donna kinnair, dr.eet him? i can move the ipad and he's in his bed. can i move the ipad? yeah, is that ok? can you see him at all? 0h! jay has been my only companion, and i really love and care for in a way. if i didn't have him, i would have been totally lost. there are times that... i do feel really low, and when will all this end? giggling. my husband, shaan, is 37. he's got motor neurone disease. he can't move, can't speak. his medical team. told us at the start of the pandemic that he wouldn't stand a chance against _ covid, and even — - in the nicest possible way — questioning whether it would be worth going to hospital. - how about 7 + 6? cedric hasn't been in school for ten months. for the first five months, he never left the home. huge sacrifices have been made by everyone to keep his dad safe. but their fear is the clock is ticking and the promised vaccine is still too far away. our son cedric and his daddy have just become so incredibly close. they've become like best buddies, and itjust is s

lets speak now to dame donna kinnair, royal college of nursing's chief executive and general secretarybility of ppe and the quality of ppe at the moment? well, we know that this virus is 70% more infectious to staff that are looking after patients we are aware that the surgical masks we are given to wear in hospitals at the moment doesn't protect against the smaller infective aerosols. we've all seen the government's video outlining the risk that the infected aerosols in the air cause. nurses do not have the air cause. nurses do not have the opportunity to socially distance and have to provide care up close and have to provide care up close and we are concerned that the government's guidance gives no reference to this. in fact, the last guidance out by the government said that individual governments could decide and if they chose to give high—end masks a higher level of protection, they needed to do risk assessments. we are saying this isn't good enough because we know that since the last week in december to the first week in january, 22% more front line workers were off sick. ~' ., .