ouma has had to cope with the savage impact of covid both in hisjob and at home.her—in—law's in the icu at the moment. i have just lost my very dear family, relatives of covid. so when you see these patients in the hospital, it just gives you that flashback, as well. but you've got to shut that down, and you've got to continue looking after your patients as best as you can. it'sjust so sad, you know? because for every person that dies, |we know there's a family that's not| being able to do the normal things that we'd do for that _ loved one who's died. edith is a hospital chaplain. she has to face up to grief, most days, comforting the dying and their families, but also supporting staff who feel the losses intensely. whenever you've got lots of people dying on the ward, you know, - it comes at a huge cost to the staff, as well- as to the families. and at london's royal free hospital, staff spoke openly of the mental strain on the front line. families are upset. we shed tears for our patients, we do. when we met this nurse, she'd only started her nursing career a f