As a frontline worker, my anger over the Tories’ handling of Covid has not abated | Letter

Responding to the Covid inquiry’s findings on PPE, midwife Laura Matthews recalls the fear she felt working without adequate protection

I am a midwife who still feels extreme anger about the way the pandemic was handled (Johnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds, 14 July).

I remember being fitted for a FFP3 mask and then being told there weren’t enough to go around and given a basic paper mask instead. I remember being told that the hospital where I worked couldn’t keep providing clean scrubs, so I had to take my potentially infected scrubs home to wash instead. I remember management shutting computers down to enforce social distancing, then reopening them when they realised we needed those computers to do our jobs.