The Covid inquiry: at age 14 she had to choose between an education or her mother’s life
Monday 29th September 2025
Lana Collie-James stayed in virtual isolation for two years, teaching herself GCSEs to protect her clinically vulnerable mother
Lana Collie-James was 14 years old in the midst of the Covid pandemic when she was offered a stark choice: her education or her mother’s life. “My mum’s clinically vulnerable. She has a compromised immune system, along with a plethora of other illnesses that would make Covid hit very hard,” she says.
It meant when schools reopened to pupils after the initial closures, the single mother and her daughter living together in Bournemouth faced a wrenching decision.
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