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Coronavirus patient numbers may have already peaked in almost a seventh of hospitals in England, official figures suggest as an ICU doctor today warned care may have to be rationed if admissions continue to surge. Some 20 of 138 acute NHS trusts recorded a dip in beds occupied by Covid patients in the seven days … Read more
Brazil’s new strain of coronavirus is ripping through the Amazon where tearful locals wait desperately for dwindling oxygen supplies to keep their relatives alive and doctors face the wretched task of deciding who can breathe. At one hospital in Manaus, a despairing relative carried an oxygen tank for his own mother-in-law just to help her … Read more
Brazil’s new strain of coronavirus is ripping through the Amazon where tearful locals wait desperately for dwindling oxygen supplies to keep their relatives alive and doctors face the wretched task of deciding who can breathe. At one hospital in Manaus, a despairing relative carried an oxygen tank for his own mother-in-law just to help her … Read more
Hospitals across England are being told to open hundreds more intensive care beds so they can take in non-Covid patients from hotspot areas, it has emerged. A letter sent by NHS England bosses to dozens of trusts has ordered them to open the emergency capacity by tomorrow in a bid to take pressure off the worst-hit … Read more
Covid-19 patients admitted to very full intensive care wards are 19% more likely to die – the equivalent of being up to 11 YEARS older Researchers from UCL have analysed data from 4,032 Covid-19 patients in ICU Those in units at over 85% capacity were 19% more likely to die But when ICU capacity was … Read more
Covid-19 patients admitted to very full intensive care wards are 19% more likely to die – the equivalent of being up to 11 YEARS older Researchers from UCL have analysed data from 4,032 Covid-19 patients in ICU Those in units at over 85% capacity were 19% more likely to die But when ICU capacity was … Read more
Hannah Dean posed as a journalist to gain entry to several hospitals across the South Coast before sharing photos on social media and claiming the government was ‘lying’ about coronavirus.
Desperate NHS hospitals are planning to draft in secretaries to help out on wards as they face a rising tide of Covid patients, internal documents reveal. There were 32,294 people in hospital with Covid-19 as of last Thursday, January 7, and wards are seeing numbers of sick patients increase across the country. Doctors and nurses, … Read more
NHS hospitals are treating less than HALF the cancer patients they usually would as coronavirus surge overwhelms hospitals Around 10,000 fewer non-Covid patients in hospitals compared with December Three times as many frontline health workers are off sick compared to last year More than 3,800 cancer patients have been waiting over 62 days for treatment … Read more
Hospitals cancel home births and shut down stand-alone maternity units, but still ban mothers-to-be from having their partners at their side on the wards Since the start of the pandemic, home births have provided a solution for women This is due to hospitals banning them having partner at their side during labour But now, with virus … Read more