Dr Marcus Butler. Photograph: Mark Condren
As healthcare workers, we have a lot of training in viral infection. So we had reason to be cautiously optimistic that we’d get through the infection if we got exposed to it ourselves.
The bigger fear back in March 2020 was that we would infect our households and infect those who are vulnerable close to us. Plus, there’s only so much you can do with a rigorous implementation of infection-control procedure. There’s a generous amount of luck involved in not picking up the infection because, in the nature of our work, we have to work closely together.