Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD affects around half a million Irish people. Professor JJ Gilmartin, Consultant Respiratory Physician and Chair of COPD Support Ireland, joins Ivan to speak about the disease, particularly during Covid-19.

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