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I had two lung collapses, they brought me back twice. adam and jade, who run the ward, say staffing pressures are creating added stress. weve had quite acute staff shortages, a lot of staff off sick and isolating. patient—wise, i think the numbers are increasing, but currently, were not at full capacity yet. itsjust sort of the fear of the unknown. you dont know which way its going to go. even though right now it feels slightly better than it did this time last year. so, what might happen now?...

Well, considering i was near deaths door, they brought me back. i feel good. i feel really good. i had two lung collapses, they brought me back twice. adam and jade, who run the ward, say staffing pressures are creating added stress. weve had quite acute staff shortages, a lot of staff off sick and isolating. patient wise, i think the numbers are increasing, but currently, were not at full capacity yet. itsjust the fear of the unknown. you dont know which way its going to go. even though right n...

Coming into intensive care. caring for patients _ coming into intensive care. caring for patients brings _ coming into intensive care. caring for patients brings more - coming into intensive care. caring i for patients brings more challenges. this bay has patients all with different conditions, needing to see different conditions, needing to see different consultants, but they are altogether here because they have covid. one of them is dennis who had an underlying lung problem before he caught t...

So well done. theres less pressure on intensive care, but more elsewhere in the hospital. so the numbers coming into intensive care are less, the numbers coming into general beds are more. and there is a caveat. we dont know, as the older people start to get omicron, whether that will convert into more coming into intensive care. and caring for covid patients in general wards brings its own challenges. this bay has four patients, all with different conditions, needing to see different consultant...

We dont know as the older people start to get 0micron whether that will convert into more people coming into intensive care. caring for covid patients in general wards brings its own challenges. this bay has patients, all with different conditions, needing to see different consultants, but they are all together here because they have covid. one of them is dennis who had an underlying lung problem before he caught the virus. well, considering i was at deaths door, they brought me back, ifeel good...

Based on your location there at the hospital we got this latest information from one of the chief medical officers there at temple. and what he was saying was he was surprised at the number of rib fractures, because all of the patients that he had seen and that he was supervising had rib fractures. what are you hearing from where youre at? >> reporter: absolutely, richard. we are here in front of temple university hospital. and dr. cushing talked about the number of rib fractures, lung injuries,...

Patients from that amtrak train derailment crash, including temple university hospital behind me. were expecting to see about six of the 23 remaining patients here at this hospital potentially released tonight. and we do know that this hospital also was where james marshall gains was treated. he was 49 years old. he worked for -- i should say james marshall gaines iii. and he worked for the associated press and unfortunately did die overnight of a massive chest wound. and earlier the spokesman f...