Why do hospitals need so much PPE?

The UK government has provided more than a billion items of PPE - why so much?
13 July 2020
Presented by Eva Higginbotham
Production by Eva Higginbotham.

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Carol got in touch to ask

"The government has provided more than a billion items of PPE to hospitals. There have been 130,000 covid cases in hospitals, about 10,000 items of PPE per patient. Can you find out why so much?"

Eva Higginbotham put the question to medic Isabelle Cochrane...

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