‘Lungs bubbling, frothing and wheezing like a coffee machine’: My Covid hell

Poet and artist Frieda Hughes tells the familiar, painful story of being weighed down by a Covid infection – and how Fomo can be even worse than feeling unwell...

As the temperature dropped outside and the water in the dogs’ bowls froze, I dragged out the heavy-duty pressure washer (Frieda Hughes)

Night sweats that soaked towels the size of bedsheets

And a chest infection that celebrated the end of November

Through to the second week of the new year and made me