I was sitting with one other person in a sterilised public hospital reception area waiting to be tested for COVID when a scary thought struck: have I just exposed myself to something far more sinister than this bogus virus?
Making it this far had not been easy. At the first hospital where I presented to be tested, I was rudely sent away because I had no symptoms.
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