The Corona Virus

[oldcolner]

NHS Beds for Covid patients 20000 now higher than April 19000

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nues-grow.html

[Norder]

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it's tough going...ruinous even...for many, this - will be the bleakest of winters .




but for some....buisness is positively Booming !


Meet The 50 Doctors, Scientists And Healthcare Entrepreneurs Who Became Pandemic Billionaires In 2020


Forbes found 50 new billionaires in the healthcare sector in 2020. The most notable newcomers of the year are the scientists behind the two most successful vaccines for the coronavirus — one developed by Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech, the other by Massachusetts-based Moderna — who have seen their net worths skyrocket since January: Uğur Şahin and Stéphane Bancel.

Virtually unknown at the outset of 2020, both men are now billionaires several times over. BioNTech CEO Şahin, who cofounded the firm with Özlem Türeci, his wife and the firm’s chief medical officer — she owns no shares in the company — is now worth $4.2 billion; his French counterpart at Moderna, Stéphane Bancel, has a $4.1 billion fortune. Moderna’s meteoric rise also produced two more billionaires among its earliest investors, Harvard professor Timothy Springer and MIT scientist Robert Langer. Those vaccines will require billions of glass vials to safely transport them — enter Italy’s Sergio Stevanato, a new billionaire and the majority shareholder in the privately-owned Stevanato Group, which is making glass vials for several dozen vaccine efforts around the world.




https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomo...lrForbesMainFB

[oldcolner]

Aren’t market forces wonderful Norder.
Delivering effective vaccines within 9 months of identifying a new disease is unprecedented. As is producing billions of doses within 3 months.
These people took risks to back their hunches, now they get the benefit.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I watched the BBC lunchtime news with the father-in-law at lunchtime and from the gist of it we are all likely to be dead by February.

Old Bob (the father-in-law) asked if he could be buried rather than cremated.

[oldcolner]

I watched the BBC lunchtime news with the father-in-law at lunchtime and from the gist of it we are all likely to be dead by February.

Old Bob (the father-in-law) asked if he could be buried rather than cremated.

Hope not BT. If you have the vaccine you won’t give him it nor feel guilty if he gets it.

Just seen this - confession time for the Reds!

Russian officials admitted Monday their nation’s COVID-19 death toll is more than three times worse than previously reported, saying more than 186,000 people have died of the disease.
The new figure puts Russia’s death toll at the third highest in the world, after the United States and Brazil.

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12..._than_reported

[oldcolner]

The United States recorded over 168,000 new coronavirus cases Monday and 1,900 deaths. Hospitalizations hit a new record high of more than 121,000, with 40% of all ICU beds nationwide now occupied by COVID patients.

In California, some Kaiser Permanente hospitals are now postponing non-urgent surgeries. The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles has converted its chapel and gift shop into makeshift COVID wards, and Huntington Hospital in Pasadena is rationing care for non-COVID patients who need ICU beds.

This comes as the Transportation Security Administration says it screened nearly 1.3 million people at U.S. airports on Sunday — the highest daily total since the start of the pandemic — as travelers shrugged off urgent pleas of public health officials to avoid travel during the pandemic.

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12..._than_reported

[oldcolner]

Sinkov you’ll be delighted to hear we’ve had over 53000 new cases reported today a new record and
London's intensive care units have asked several major Yorkshire hospitals to accept a transfer of critically ill patients as the capital's ICUs surpass maximum capacity. Leaked figures from the internal NHS critical care capacity dashboard have revealed that England's ICU capacity is now running at over 100 per cent at a number of hospitals across London, the south east, and east.
Data from the internal NHS critical care capacity dashboard - leaked to HSJ (Health Service Journal)- showed that London had far surpassed its maximum capacity with intensive care units 114 per cent full on Monday night. ( that’s two in a bed time)

The south east was not far behind with ICUs at 113 per cent capacity. In the east of England the leaked capacity data shows units running at 100 per cent.

NHS hospitals are running out of oxygen, medics claimed on Tuesday as they began planning to set up makeshift tents to try and cope with an influx of coronavirus patients.

Patients were having to be moved more than 65 miles to the nearest hospital with intensive care capacity, medics warned.

the situation is worst in the east of England, where there are 2,922 patients, up 74 percent from a first wave peak of 1,679 on April 12. The South-East has seen a similar rise to 3,796, compared to 2,881 in April.

Hospitals in London have also surpassed the peak seen during the first wave.

There were 5,371 Covid-19 patients in the capital on December 28 3.2 per cent above the 5,201 peak on April 9. The North-East and Yorkshire, where hospitals are still below but approaching their first wave peak, had 2,528 patients on the same date, 5.0 percent below the 2,661 peak on April 9.

[oldcolner]

Fear not AZ vaccine approved and 100 million doses ordered. Form a queue. Put sportsmen women near the front.

[oldcolner]

Glad you’re not in London Sinkov or is it still all made up by the BBC

Doctors in areas worst affected by the surging number of coronavirus cases are just days away from having to make 'horrendous choices' over who they can treat and who is left to die, a consultant warned last night. The situation in hospitals is said to be reaching breaking point with record Covid admissions yesterday, ambulances seen queuing outside

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...run-Covid.html

It’s going to be bad as some Nightingales are closed down now

What does one million square feet of empty space look like? Anyone who stepped inside the NHS Nightingale Hospital in East London yesterday will know only too well.

The facility, constructed under military supervision inside the ExCel conference centre in April, is no longer there; no equipment, no staff and certainly no patients.

‘It’s closing down,’ a security guard told us.

Even without venturing through the entrance, that much was obvious. An NHS road sign initially erected to direct ambulances arriving at the site could be seen lying beside a wall, and dozens of partition walls — some with NHS labels attached — were dumped in a storage pen.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...make-sick.html

[oldcolner]

More bad news

Retired medics have been prevented from returning to the NHS front line to help battle the coronavirus pandemic by bureaucracy including a requirement to provide 21 pieces of evidence, The Telegraph can reveal.

Claire Barker, a retired GP, said it was "impossible" for her to apply because she did not have the required proof, which includes evidence of Prevent Radicalisation training.

It comes as the NHS boss overseeing recruitment revealed that only one in eight retired medics who had applied to return to the front line have been able to work.

Andrew Foster told The Telegraph that of the 40,000 doctors and nurses who applied to return in March, 30,000 were eligible but only 5,000 had been given jobs by July, with officials ignoring his plea to create a bank of volunteers.