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Article History

Received: 12 August 2024

Accepted: 1 November 2024

First Online: 9 November 2024

Declarations

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: Ethical approval for this study was granted under the King’s College London Ethics Committee Minimal Risk Assessment MRA-19/20-19282. Written informed consent emphasising the voluntary nature of participation was obtained from all participants.

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: LR and JM are the co-founders of Life Lines, a philanthropic COVID-19 rapid response project that received charitable donations to enable provision of 4G enabled Android tablets and a virtual visiting solution to ICUs across the UK. LR and JM have no financial or commercial interests in Life Lines or the virtual visiting solution. Major philanthropic contributors to Life Lines include Google, True Colours and the Gatsby Trust. British Telecom contributed in-kind time and resources to facilitate the supply of 4G enabled tablets to UK ICUs. LR and JM are the co-founders of Life Lines, a philanthropic COVID-19 rapid response project that received charitable donations to enable provision of 4G enabled Android tablets and a virtual visiting solution to ICUs across the UK. LR and JM have no financial or commercial interests in Life Lines or the virtual visiting solution. Major philanthropic contributors to Life Lines include Google, True Colours and the Gatsby Trust. British Telecom contributed in-kind time and resources to facilitate the supply of 4G enabled tablets to UK ICUs. KC, KB, SH, JT, BCXA, AC, LR, HC, RE declare that they have no competing interests.