Hospitals in virus hotspots are now treating up to three times as many Covid-19 patients as they did at the peak of the first wave. Experts said that we are seeing the start of a third wave as hospital bosses warned of further ‘mass cancellations’ of routine operations and appointments. Latest Department of Health figures … Read more
Hospitals are seeing record numbers of coronavirus patients as fears over NHS capacity saw Boris Johnson refuse to rule out a third lockdown. ‘We’re hoping very much that we will be able to avoid anything like’ a third lockdown in the new year, the Prime Minister said, but added: ‘the reality is that the rates … Read more
NHS data still shows hospitals to be less busy than they were this time last year even as coronavirus‘s second wave bites and the number of Covid patients approaches levels seen in the crisis’s peak in April. There were 15,465 people in hospital with coronavirus in England on Wednesday, December 16, compared to 18,974 on … Read more
Thousands more routine operations get axed: Top hospitals cancel surgery as doctors battle to cope with soaring Covid-19 cases NHS trusts in London, Essex and Kent have said that they were under pressure Some forced to divert ambulances and cancel non-urgent surgery to free beds Thousands of patients are expected to be affected by the … Read more
Pregnant women will again be allowed to take someone with them to hospital appointments and have them by their side during labour, the NHS has said. Under coronavirus regulations brought in earlier this year mothers-to-be were required to go to appointments alone and leave partners, friends or relatives outside. But health chiefs this week told … Read more
Another 519 die from Covid – a rise of 123 on last week’s death toll as total killed by virus goes past 64,000 while a further 21,502 test positive It means the number of Britons lost to the disease has hit 64,025 over the crisis The NHS England figures are up by 122 on last … Read more
Another 314 people have died from Covid in English hospitals bringing total to 44,126, statistics show The figures are almost identical to those of last Saturday, when 315 people died However, they are up on yesterday’s tally of 275 coronavirus deaths in hospital All except 11, aged between 63 and 93, had known underlying health … Read more
The risk of dying from Covid-19 in British hospitals has halved since the peak of the crisis in spring, according to research submitted to Number 10‘s scientists. SAGE – the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies – heard how the mortality rate fell from 35 per cent in early April to 15 per cent by … Read more
Rising coronavirus cases and deaths are causing beds in US hospitals to fill up much more quickly than expected. On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released facility-level data from more than 2,000 counties for the first time since the pandemic began. It revealed that one in three intensive care units (ICUs) … Read more
Scientists have developed a new interactive map that shows how many coronavirus patients are in hospitals in every county of the US. The COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project tells Americans how many people diagnosed with COVID-19 are filling up inpatient beds and how many are in ICUs. Users can also access a list in which every … Read more