Dan Baker, 25, from Warwickshire, received a kidney transplant in October and was told by doctors he needed to keep shielding because he is vulnerable to Covid.
Few medical advances can top the record speed and success of COVID-19 vaccines except perhaps the transformation of COVID-19 care.
In the spring of 2020, British doctors and nurses were desperately trying to save lives from a new deadly disease. And through no fault of their own, they were often unable to save them. It was oxygen and paracetamol really, that’s all we had, said Ray Sheridan, consultant general physician at the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust hospital. You did all the good basic medicine and nursing to make sure patients were comfortable, supported, fed and hydrated, he explained. And you crossed your fingers.