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To be in intensive care, and staff have to be on constant alert because patients can take a rapid turn for the worse. its a very, very sudden thing, and you just have to respond and reassess. and that patient looks like whatever the problem was, we have sorted. staff have noticed that, compared to the first wave, the age of covid patients in intensive care is lower. for example, right here now, there are two people in their 30s with no underlying health conditions. the chances of someone under a...

How it all works. i think if we think back to this time last year, we had much fewer numbers of cases of covid, but weve had far higher deaths in far higher hospitalisations, and really the big change that we have made is vaccination, which is massively reduce the chances of hospitalisation and sadly death, but now with 0micron what has happened is we have got a massive increase in the number of cases, and whilst vaccination and boosting, in particular is to hold that at bay, that still means th...

How grateful i am. | all thats been done. its transformed everything. covid hospital admissions are rising in all the uks nations but there are variations in england. in london, daily numbers are falling but in the north—west and north—east theyre rising sharply. were still seeing rising hospitalisations, particularly with the case rate rising in the older age groups. that is of concern. and i think we have to be honest, when we look at the nhs, it will be a rocky few weeks ahead. so, how do...

Being fuelled by the more infectious 0micron variant. so across all age groups, we are seeing increases, but particularly driven by those young age groups, weve seen increases among school—age children fairly recently, particularly from nursery through to primary. but we are now seeing infections among older age groups as well, so young adults from the mid—20s to the mid—30s, but spreading right the way up to increases now in the over 70s, although they remain the lowest group to be infect...

Recently, particularly from nursery through to primary. but we are now seeing infections among older age groups as well, so young adults from the mid—20s to the mid—30s, but spreading right the way up to increases now in the over 70s, although they remain the lowest group to be infected. theres more encouraging news on boosters. new uk data suggests a booster shot is 88% effective at preventing people ending up in hospital due to 0micron. and after a huge push, all uk nations say theyve hit ...

Now, which is most people are going to get covid. all right? what we need to do is make sure the hospitals can still function, transportation, you know, other essential services are not disrupted while this happens. >> and as coronavirus hospitalizations have reached a record high with more than 145,000 people now hospitalized with the virus, lucy kavanov has more. >> reporter: more americans are now in hospitals sick with covid than ever before, about twice as many as two weeks ago, p surpassin...

There are two people in their 305 with no underlying health conditions. the chances of someone under a0 needing intensive care for coronavirus are much smaller than for those who are older. the number of younger patients may be more noticeable because cases have risen across all age groups. doctors are clear no one is safe. and i think, you know, for someone who says its a myth or, you know, it wont affect me can come and see the 30—40—year—olds in the intensive care — with no guarantee ...

A rapid turn for the worse. its a very, very sudden thing, and you just have to respond and reassess. and that patient looks like whatever the problem was, we have sorted. staff have noticed that, compared to the first wave, the age of covid patients in intensive care is lower. for example, right here now, there are two people in their 30s with no underlying health conditions. the chances of someone under a0 needing intensive care for coronavirus are much smaller than for those who are older. th...

Mrjavid said that, thanks to boosters and new drugs, the health system was in a stronger position than last year but this was a very difficult time for the nhs. we are still seeing rising hospitalisations, particularly with the case rate rising in older age groups, that is of concern, and i think we have to be honest, and when we look at the nhs, it will be a rocky few weeks ahead. there were reinforcements for the nhs, with military personnel arriving at aberdeen royal infirmary. the armed forc...

Facing this week. also with the vaccines there was heartbreak when parents of young children faced a setback and they said they needed time to get it ready for really young kids. from the data youre they needed to get for young children. i think fortunately in general that age group under 5 tend to be less severe. some came out showing in fact from all age groups including unvaccinated, the risk of emergency room visits for hospitalization for individual kids is about five times less with delt...