Thirteen people die in just seven days in just one coronavirus-hit care home Coronavirus is believed to have killed 13 Glasgow care home residents in a week The virus is said to have ‘swept through’ the 90-bed Burlington Court care home Two staff have been treated for the virus, the victims have not been tested … Read more
UK death rate of coronavirus patients in intensive care tops 50 per cent, study finds Study found more than half of intensive care patients died due to the killer bug Of 690 coronavirus patients in intensive care with known outcomes, 346 died The UK’s coronavirus death toll soars to 4,313 with more than 41,900 cases … Read more
A crisis on a scale that defies imagination is sweeping Britain’s care homes. Unseen, unreported and too often alone, our elderly are dying from the coronavirus epidemic – killed by the system that is meant to keep them safe. And as they die, they are denied the basic comfort of seeing their loved ones for … Read more
The nation’s half-million care home residents face becoming the ‘abandoned victims’ of the coronavirus crisis, campaigners warned last night. The disease has already torn through dozens of care homes, leaving them looking like ‘war zones’ and cases are expected to explode in the next few days unless urgent action is taken. Now bosses are pleading … Read more
The nation’s half-million care home residents face becoming the ‘abandoned victims’ of the coronavirus crisis, campaigners warned last night. The disease has already torn through dozens of care homes, leaving them looking like ‘war zones’ and cases are expected to explode in the next few days unless urgent action is taken. Now bosses are pleading … Read more
Kate Garraway is left ‘sick with worry’ as her husband Derek Draper battles coronavirus in intensive care while she isolates at home with their children after displaying mild symptoms By Olivia Wheeler For Mailonline Published: 14:07 BST, 3 April 2020 | Updated: 14:24 BST, 3 April 2020 Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper is in intensive … Read more
Yesterday morning could not have got off to a more harrowing start as Michelle Fay arrived to take over from the night shift. Not only had two more residents died in the early hours, but one was a particular favourite. ‘She was ‘Our Mary’,’ says Michelle softly. ‘We’ve known her for years — her children … Read more
By Martin Robinson Feckless businesses are taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis in the NHS by ramping up the prices of gloves, masks and aprons by up to 1,000 per cent, it was revealed today. Care homes say they could go to the wall because they are being ‘ripped off’ in order to properly protect … Read more
Ford is set to 3D print 100,000 face shields each week to help protect health care workers during the coronavirus outbreak After a request for help from the Mayo Clinic, Ford designed a plastic face shield The design was made in consultation with local health care workers in Detroit The shield is assembled from components … Read more
Patients crammed into hospital corridors, on trolleys, or simply slumped against walls. The oldest – and sickest – left gasping for air, abandoned. Doctors forced to decide who must be given treatment and a chance to live, and who is beyond help. Accounts of the situation in some Italian and Spanish hospitals read like something out of … Read more