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The coronavirus pushed intensive care units beyond their limit. but even before the pandemic, these wards had been running at very near capacity. and it is here that one of the biggest killers in the uk, and indeed the world, lurks. it is called sepsis. so, sepsis is when there is a severe infection, and when the bodys response to that severe infection leads to organ failure. it can set in without warning, and can affect anyone. this is a lady in her early 50s, she is in day four on the unit, sh...

Gather data from icus across the uk to create a database of treatment that worked so the doctors in the thick of it could learn from each other at speed and save more patients. for the first time we built a picture of how disease was treated in real—time on the database across the country. you can see the diversity of the different approaches the people are trying, what was working and what was not working. working and what was not working-— working and what was not workinu. ., , ., ., , wor...

It can set in without warning, and can affect anyone. this is a lady in her early 50s, she is in day four on the unit, she was very unwell initially. people are admitted to icus for many reasons, but sepsis tends to strike when patients are at their weakest. we literally collect every heartbeat and every breath. when you first start in intensive care, when i started, it was difficult to see what was important because there was much data. but remember, computers love data, and love spotting patte...

Sophisticated equipment as patients get sicker and sicker. >> right. if you overwhelm the hospitals, not only do you run out of space potentially but you also run out of workers to take care of those patients. >> and, jim, by the way, thats -- remember, thats what we saw in south texas last summer. thats where the mortality -- thats when mortality shoots up is when our icus get overwhelmed. imagine if this starts happening with pediatric icus. >> i cant even think about that. let me switch gears...

The ai clinician was back to square one. but the humans were not. their idea was to gather data from icus across the uk to create a database of treatment that worked so the doctors in the thick of it could learn from each other at speed and save their patients. we build for the first time a picture of how disease was treated in real—time on the databases across the country. and you see all see the diversity of all the different approaches people are trying, what was working and what was not wo...

Amounts of oxygen. if they didnt tire of their breathing so quickly as many patients with other pneumonia often struggle with their breathing. we also saw things like a lot of blood clots, which we occasionally see in other sepsis, but were far more frequent in this disease. nearly all the patients coming through to icu now have this new sepsis, and for the ai, this was an illness it had never seen before, nor had any data on. and remember, just because a computer has learned to be good at one t...

Children on the altar of wokeness, forcing our children to wear masks is nothing sort of psychological child abuse, period. >> we have schools starting across the country. that message is very different from parents, you can make your own decisions. >> i cannot control my emotions. the fact that we have children, and you all have had doctors on this station talking about how were seeing the rise -- not only the rise in covid cases in children, but particularly more dangerous. were seeing childre...

But the humans werent. their idea was to gather data from icus across the uk to create a database of treatments that worked, so the doctors in the thick of it could learn from each other at speed and save their patients. we build for the first time a picture of how disease was treated in real—time on the databases across the country. and you see all see the diversity of all the different approaches people are trying, what was working and what was not working. now this data will be used to retr...

And as breast clinics emptied out, elsewhere the nhs was about to be overrun. the coronavirus pushed intensive care units beyond their limit. but even before the pandemic, these wards had been running at very near capacity. and it is here that one of the biggest killers in the uk, and indeed the world, lurks. it is called sepsis. so sepsis is when there is a severe infection, and when the bodys response to that severe infection leads to organ failure. it can set in without warning, and can affec...

Classrooms and all of them are masked, we are going to have fewer quarantines and when we have fewer quarantines, that means our children are going to have direct instruction, more often. >> so that sounds reasonable enough, which bring us us to the governor, ron desantis. he is still standing by his executive order barring public schools from imposing any mask mandates and threatening their funding, if they do. when he signed it last friday, the state recorded just under 9,700 new cases. today,...