This story is part of an RTÉ Investigates series: Covid - Future Health Care Elaine Scully sits alone in a sparsely decorated isolation room in the National Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at St James's Hospital in Dublin.
She has acute leukaemia. "I'm 42 years of age. I live in Carlow town with my husband, we've been married 21 years and we have two sons, Dylan and Jack.
I actually just finished eight days of chemo last night," Elaine tells RTÉ, speaking via an intercom system outside the double doors of her room. "On this ward, Denis Burkitt, they are very careful, because the patients all are transplant patients with low immune systems so they are always very careful.