TY - JOUR T1 - COVID-19 in Wales and Liberia JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 549 LP - 549 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X713261 VL - 70 IS - 700 AU - Michael Bryant Y1 - 2020/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/700/549.abstract N2 - Shakespeare once said, ‘all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players’.1 This phrase has rung true throughout 2020 as I’ve juggled my role as an out-of-hours telemedicine doctor with my ‘other job’ (the entirely unpaid, 80 hours a week role) as the medical director of Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA) hospital in Liberia, a charity-run hospital in one of the world’s most resource-deprived countries.Every day sees a stream of children in extremis; tiny malnourished fingers reaching for packets of Plumpy’Nut, comatose toddlers held by mothers praying for renewed life to reach their eyes, neonates who arrived too soon to survive without the ventilators so emblematic of 2020.The team fight hard to save as many as possible, but most weeks we lose at least a couple. I dress in my best paediatrician scrubs and do my best to play the part — as a GP with a specialist interest, I’m the closest the ELWA has.The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health2 recently wrote a statement on the … ER -