The previously hidden figures, covering all NHS trusts in England, showed that as of last week, only 44% of those classified as Covid patients had tested positive for the virus by the time they were admitted to hospital. Despite broad public testing for the disease, an incredible 56% of Covid …
Read More »Ex-soldier goes on shooting rampage in Thai Covid-19 hospital, mistaking patients for drug addicts
Speaking to Reuters on Thursday, shortly after the attack took place, regional Police Chief Amphol Buarabporn said that an initial investigation suggested the shooter mistook the Covid-19 patients for drug addicts, adding that he hated drug users. Buarabporn confirmed that the attacker, a former soldier, believed to be 23 years …
Read More »Oh la la! French medics inject 140 patients with normal saline instead of Pfizer vaccine ‘by mistake’
Some 140 people who attended the vaccination center at Reims University Hospital in the town of Epernay, 130km northeast of Paris, erroneously received injections on Tuesday. The injections contained normal saline, which is a harmless solution of sodium chloride dissolved in water. It can be applied externally to clean wounds …
Read More »More than 3,000 patients a week, like poor old Captain Tom, are being infected with Covid while in hospital for other ailments
During January, it has been reported, more than 450 people were catching Covid-19 every day while in hospital in England for other medical reasons. Which means that, over the course of the month, nearly one in 10 people in hospital were infected. One in 10… 10 percent. In case you …
Read More »Hospital patients could be moved into hotels, says Health Sec, as NHS looks at ‘all options’ amid soaring hospitalisations
Speaking on Wednesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was “impossible to know” when lockdown measures might end, as the NHS is reaching breaking point, with more than 35,000 coronavirus patients currently in hospitals across the UK. Asked about reports that the NHS was looking to move recovering patients to …
Read More »NHS Nightingale hospitals ‘being readied’ to admit patients amid sharp rise in Covid-19 infections across UK
Speaking on Thursday, a spokesman for the National Health Service (NHS) told reporters that rising Covid-19 infections had necessitated the readying of emergency care centres. “In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London was asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and …
Read More »German hospitals packed to the brim with 40% more Covid-19 patients in ICUs than during 1st wave – union chief
“In states like Saxony, the number of patients in intensive care is five times higher than it was in April. Hospitals are either reaching their capacity limits or have already exceeded them,” Gerald Gass, the head of the German Hospital Federation (DKG), an umbrella group uniting regional hospital associations, told …
Read More »PTSD, panic attacks, insomnia: 1 in 5 Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within three months, new study finds
In a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, researchers from the University of Oxford have analyzed electronic medical record of 69 million people living in the US. It included 62,354 individuals who were diagnosed with Covid-19 between January 20 and August 1. The scientists found that 20 percent of …
Read More »Covid-19 patients FIVE TIMES more likely to die in hospital than those with flu, are at higher risk for 17 complications – CDC
“Compared with patients with influenza, those with COVID-19 had a more than five times higher risk for in-hospital death and approximately double the ICU admission risk and hospital length of stay, and were at higher risk for 17 acute respiratory, cardiovascular, hematologic, neurologic, renal and other complications,” the CDC said …
Read More »The Rehabilitation Robot Improves Neurological Patients’ Quality Of Life
KinisForo company introduced its revolutionary technology market solution during the last decade when patients with motor impairments as a result of brain injury or neurological disorders were given no hope to recover. The revolutionary robot based on the K-Set method was specifically developed in order to rehabilitate stroke patients and …
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