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"I've never heard his voice because you need air to pass through the voice box but the hole in his neck for the ventilator is below that," Teena said.

He ended up on a feeding tube and a ventilator after he contracted covid in 2020 while taking other essential workers from this predominantly Black area to jobs in a whiter, wealthier tourist town.

McCray says doctors put him on a ventilator and told his wife he was likely going to die.

He told the panel on Thursday that he had rushed into Ms Skripal's room and saw her getting out of bed while attached to a ventilator, a dialysis machine and had several drips in her neck administering fluids.

In Covid they were looking after four, five or even six – often all on a ventilator.