Question: have you worked on any children with coronavirus?

Alice Burleigh answered on 20 May 2020:

Hi! No I haven’t yet, as soon as we went into lockdown I have been working from home! My supervisors are both doctors at Great Ormond Street though, so they have been working lots of hours to help children who have had COVID-19. There has been a lot of children recently experiencing a secondary immune response to the disease, which is where the immune system goes a bit crazy after being exposed to the virus, causing some children to become quite poorly. Because Great Ormond Street is a specialist hospital with lots of poorly children staying already, we have been trying to keep covid-19 patients out of the hospital, however children with this secondary response are being treated there.