It could be said that Scotland's Chief Medical Officer has "seen it all". And here, north of the border we, in turn, have been seeing rather a lot of her on television recently, following the outbreak of the global pandemic.

http://thenational.scot/news/1833829...scotlands-cmo/ ...

Born in Belfast, the daughter of a psychiatrist & eminent orthopaedic surgeon, she'd expressed an ambition to become a doctor at an early age ... with a desire to find a cure for *influenza, the symptoms of *which - we've now co-incidentally discoverd the "hard way" - are believed to be not unlike those in the initial stages of the dreaded Covid~19 virus!