under—staffed. there are 93,000 vacancies in england. 10,000 people work at coventry hospital. the numbers off sick because of covid are rising. we've got approaching 600 staff who are currently absent from work because of covid, and we assume that that is a majority of omicron cases. and what's the worry with that? well, the concern is if it, if it continues to grow, erm, and it has grown over the last few days, so we're keeping a very close eye on that. because of course that would then start to impact in a greater way on the services we can provide. they're under immense pressure again today, with this area being over—full. we've got patients waiting to be seen. chief operating officer gaby harris is in a&e to assess the situation. more people turning up have omicron although many don't realise it. we're finding patients coming in with other conditions and then when we're testing them, we find that