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Dozens of frontline NHS workers anonymously messaged me today. Thank you Dr Nishant Joshi for bravely speaking up for them all about lack of protective equipment & absence of tests. Shockingly this includes his pregnant wife - also a dr & exposed to virus
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Please read this thread & see what these doctors, nurses, care assistants, paramedics & many more are facing. Shocking first-hand accounts from those on the frontline who are being exposed to unnecessary risks
This one though was the one that broke me. A care assistant on a zero hours contract using a coffee filter as a mask to protect the vulnerable patients in her care & herself
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