Covid-19: Lockdown set to lift and long Covid testing hopes
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“He would sob down the phone, ‘mummy come and get me’,” says Dawn Cavanagh who was unable to see her 18-year-old son Jack for the first 15 weeks in lockdown. She says it was “awful” and Jack, who lives in residential care and has learning disabilities, epilepsy, autism and ADHD, became anxious, depressed and started to self-harm. Her story comes as many disabled people felt “abandoned” during the pandemic, according to a report.