‘Did you hear it?’ said a friend of mine, red-faced with the flush of a piece of news she couldn’t wait to offload, as she rushed into a church hall where we were attending an event.
She was bursting with excitement because a mutual acquaintance had just been on a radio phone-in show banging the drum for the vaccine.

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