Nov 8, 2020
Lower levels of movement, and consequently social mixing, may help explain why hospitals in the capital have so far escaped a major surge of cases in the second wave. Hospitalisations in London are at less than 150 per 100,000 people, compared to around 400 per 100,000 in the North-West and Yorkshire and the Humber. Other […]
Nov 7, 2020
The number of people admitted to hospital with Covid has also started to slow. The Prime Minister says that a still rising number of deaths justifies lockdown. But the number of new cases tends to be two weeks ahead of hospitalisations and four weeks ahead of deaths,...
Nov 5, 2020
Black, Asian and minority ethnic health workers require extra care during the coronavirus second wave, a minister has said as the human rights watchdog launches a structural inequality investigation. Care minister Helen Whately made the warning in a speech at the...
Nov 5, 2020
Although the central forecasts remain unchanged, forecasting 750 deaths a day and 4,290 hospital admissions by December 8, the upper end of the range has been revised down. Instead of 1,500 deaths, it suggests an upper figure of 1,010, while the top range for daily...
Nov 5, 2020
However, new analysis published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that increasing the wait to surgery from six to 12 weeks would increase the risk of death by around nine per cent. The scientists at Queen’s University in Ontario and the London School of...
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