'We need to keep talking about how we’re feeling': the NHS staff who became social media stars

Posts shared thousands of times shone a spotlight on nurses and doctors speaking out during the pandemic

Midway through the afternoon on Thursday 19 March, Dawn Bilbrough, a critical care nurse of 20 years, was on her way home after four punishing days of 12-hour shifts. Stopping to get fresh food at the supermarket, she found the shelves empty, and people walking around in a daze, just stunned". By the next morning, on her work break still in her scrubs, she was on ITV's This Morning.