this morning and can explain what s involved. how do we get involved? i can tell that but first how do we get involved? i can tell that but first let s how do we get involved? i can tell that but first let s look how do we get involved? i can tell that but first let s look at - how do we get involved? i can tell that but first let s look at where i that but first let s look at where we are because we are in sherwood forest, a wonderful location, the forest, a wonderful location, the forest behind us, he slid beyond that and we have a bird feeder here but no birds. there was a sparrow and a robin earlier, a robin in sherwood forest, appropriately enough, but no others but the bird population here is amazing, wonderful dawn chorus. listen to this. , can wonderful dawn chorus. listen to this- can you - wonderful dawn chorus. listen to this. can you hear i wonderful dawn chorus. listen to i this. can you hear that? this. birdsong. can you hear that? somebody who this. birdsong
i got my vaccine. the only reason i was able to get that was because i had a diagnosis, they knew what was wrong with me. and i m overthe moon about the fact that 12 to 15 year olds can get the vaccine now. and it s just an amazing thing. and you know, get it, if you can. if you want to, you know. if you re scared of needles, that s fine, so am i? before covid i took part in a lot of sports like golf and cricket. things aren t back fully the way they were. and i think it s going to take me a long time to get back to where i was. but i think that i am getting better. while imogen is recovering, other people who caught the coronavirus back at the very start of the pandemic
one in seven and one in 1a young people who ve had the covid virus might be left with persisting symptoms. they could be as many as 30,000 teenagers in england. now, that s not a trivial number and some of those will be very severely affected. my name is imogen. i am 13 and i am from county down. i got covid around the end of march 2020, you know, as schools were about to shut. and at first, whenever i went to get that checked, they weren t doing covid testing on kids so they wouldn t do a pcr test, they wouldn t do a covid test on me, so i wasjust told to treat it like the flu, but the flu ended up not going away. the fatigue started pretty early on. it was so hard to do daily tasks, getting
they could be as many 30,000 in england. it is not a trivial number, some of those will be very severely affected. my name is imogen. i am 13 and i am from county down. i got covid around the end of march 2020, you know, as schools were about to shut. and at first, whenever i went to get that checked they weren t doing covid testing on kids so they wouldn t do a pcr test, they wouldn t do a covid test on me so i was just told to treat it like the flu, but the flu ended up not going away.
while imogen is recovering, other people who got the coronavirus back at the very start of the pandemic are still going through their own, often unseen, daily battles with long covid 18 months later. including one man who fought to save his life, when he got the virus back in march 2020. i m mark mcclurg, from newtownards. i m the pastor of ards elim, i m happily married to claire and we have three lovely children; lilliana, josiah, and judah. i ve been suffering from covid for 18 months, i was actually in church preaching, i couldn t move. i was just stuck to the pulpit. i had chest pain, back pain and i knew i was in trouble. i probably was one of the first people in northern ireland to contract covid 19,