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What is being done about shortages in our hospitals and supermarkets

Health Minister Edward Argar & Stuart Rose chairman of Ocado Group

How do we find the food ...the supplies we need to live? That is not a question most of us ever imagined we'd have to ask in modern Britain, but it is a real worry for a growing number of the elderly and the vulnerable who've been ordered to stay at home and either can not go to the shops at all, or can not risk the crowds and the queues they face when they get there.

In hospitals, many are worried about the failure of safety equipment to arrive, PPE as it is known. 鈥淚t鈥檚 like sending soldiers into battle without a rifle鈥 as one medic described it to the 麻豆社. And there are also concerns about when badly needed ventilators will arrive, with fears that the whole system could be overwhelmed.

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