The question was on the effect of COVID on midwifery clients. It introduced more choice. We are the only care providers delivering babies at home, and we have the evidence to show that it is a safe choice. It was a choice made by increasing numbers of people as they were giving birth during this pandemic, which brings to light the importance of having an alternate care provider to be able to provide care in a different way under varying conditions.
I will say for the midwives, though, that not being essential workers made the pandemic quite difficult. No PPE was paid for or supplied by the government and they could not afford PPE for our students either, so we had to supply our students with all their PPE for their placements, which added thousands of dollars of cost to our program budgets this last year as well.