Care workers with coronavirus face an awful choice: live in poverty or risk killing your patient | Aditya Chakrabortty

They look after our loved ones but are often forced to ignore sickness as statutory sick pay is such a pittance

A few days ago, I spent a sunny afternoon with a woman who believed the government had left her little option but to kill.

Sitting in a park, Grace and I watched her two little boys scampering among the trees. I was trained to promote life, to preserve life, to save life," the graduate in public health told me. Yet now she felt, I and my colleagues may have no other choice except to kill people."