Coronavirus in the UK, latest update: in 24 hours, the death toll reached 1.408 with an increase of 180 fatalities.
In 24 hours, the death toll in UK has hit 1.408 in a rise of 180. A doctor has warned hospital could be forced to ration ventilators. According to reports, some of London’s biggest hospital could be forced to save in-demand ventilators for patients most likely to survive amid Coronavirus pressures.
Imperial College said that the sickest Covid-19 patients may need ventilator, so that for some patients this would not be in their best interests. But the NHS Trust denied people are being pass over for ventilators due to capacity problems.
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Coronavirus, latest update in the UK
Then Senior Consultant told that doctors become more careful to decide which patients are being considered for critical care. A department head working for the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust told that fewer of the most marginal patients are being selected for ventilator treatment because they would require as long as a fortnight on the desperately needed machines to recover.
A breathing aid that should help keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care has reportedly been developed by a group. This group include University College London researchers and the Mercedes Formula One team. University College engineers, medical clinicians, and technicians from Mercedes hope to distribute the machine through NHS hospitals pending successful trials this week. The device is a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure or CPAP machine. This device will delivers oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator and patient sedation.
On the other side, numerous medics express concerns about a lack of PPE in NHS hospitals. Staff at one hospital have taken to “hiding” equipment out of fear. The obstetrician working in a hospital in London said that protective gear is being kept under lock and key by senior staff. Another doctor compared the situation to sending a soldier to war without the necessary equipment while a junior doctor said it feels like it is “inevitable” that they will contract the virus due to a lack of PPE.
Then the good news appear. Imperial College Professor Neil Ferguson said that researchers can see some early signs that the virus is slowing in UK. The epidemiologist also added that antibody tests are in the final stages of development now. “It is quite clear across the country, the epidemic is in different stages in different parts of the country,” he said. Professor James Naismith, director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute at the University of Oxford, says many of the victims in the UK who have died from Covid-19 were infected weeks before social distancing.
Meanwhile, Briton are being warned that the strict lockdown imposed to fight the Coronavirus pandemic could last six months. Yet it depends on whether people can follow the rules. In his self-isolating, Boris Johnson warned of approaching “critical peak moment” and urged people to continue following lockdown rules to “reduce pressure and demand on the NHS”.
