Covid cases are soaring, but medical breakthroughs mean NHS wards look very different to previous waves

Covid cases are soaring, but medical breakthroughs mean NHS wards look very different to previous waves Around two per cent of patients in hospital with Covid require mechanical ventilation, compared with 11 per cent at the height of the winter wave in 2021.

The number of Covid patients entering intensive care is not rising in line with a steep uptick in hospital admissions as the impact of vaccination and new antiviral medications appears to be holding at bay new waves of serious illness. iNews

See also:

• Covid Wales: Masks back at more hospitals as cases rise BBC News
• Another wave: is this ‘living with Covid’? (podcast) The Guardian
• Handle with care: mistakes and near-misses at UK Covid labs The Guardian
• Covid-positive hospital patients in England now over 10,000 The Independent
• The hidden impacts of Long COVID (podcast) Sky News