average length of hospital stay resulting from omicron is any different to that associated with other variants so in short our understanding of the precise nature and extent of omicron s impact on hospitals and the wider health and social care system is still developing but what is beyond doubt is that it is already having a considerable impact. the number of people in hospital with covid has increased from 679 now to one 1203, which is putting significant additional pressure on the nhs and the nhs is facing increased pressure on three related fronts, dealing with the backlog of things built up over the pandemic, and many nhs staff are absent and isolating because they either have covid or a close contact with people with it, and this means the increasing pressure on the nhs is being managed
virus. that obviously is a few days ago now, so it will be even more than that figure. she pointed out that the number of people in hospital has almost doubled. it has gone from 679 to 1223 in the past week. that is an increase of 80%. what was also i think significant about what nicola sturgeon was saying was that she was saying there is going to be a new strategy, which will be developed over the next few weeks, and that will be more in terms of trying to avoid restrictions and lock downs of the kind that we have seen for the last two years, a sort of acknowledgement that coronavirus has to be lived with, as she put it at one point, you cannot carry on living with these kinds of restrictions forever. you have to find some means to return to some form of normality. and so, it is interesting that even though we are in this situation
examples of that and i think, should we talk about america first? yes. examples of that and i think, should we talk about america first? yes, so we ve ust we talk about america first? yes, so we ve just had we talk about america first? yes, so we ve just had the we talk about america first? yes, so we ve just had the count we talk about america first? yes, so we ve just had the count increased i we ve just had the count increased to 679 flights cancelled to or within the us today and that represents around 100,000 passengers to add to many hundreds of thousands of people who have had their plans disrupted and the worst affected airlines are delta and jet blue but american allegiant and america southwest also badly hit with united and they are effectively saying, we do not have enough staff because they are all off isolating because of the overgrown variant. in comparison, things are working very well here at gatwick and indeed at the airports around the uk, very few delays, larg
considerable amount of our staff contacting the department of ed to get them to respond of what they have actually taken. they have just taken money without any form of notification. we finally received a response i believe yesterday. what s the process for being made whole? in this situation, now we will go to the project safe grant and withdraw those funds, so we can have that money. this is not salary for our board members. they take that as well. so this would these dollars are instructional dollars, and so we need to make sure we have them there, so we can serve or students 679 so we will now have to draw down the federal funds we had no intention of, at this point, but they really kind of forced our hand. so, in punishing you for
five-yard play turned into a 70-yard run for the touchdown. wes jackson on a run to the left-hand side. touchdown, veritas! reporter: both teams ran over to congratulate him. the moment all the more meaningful because wes has down syndrome. wes, go! wes, go! if you come to practice every day, and you re there, and you put in the work, we re going to find a spot for you on the field. he loved it, so it was something i ll never forget. at that point, i wasn t a football coach. i was a person watching something special happen. love to see that embrace. thank you so much for watching. gma in the morning. david muir will be right back here tomorrow night. i m linsey davis in new york. have a great evening. good night. evening. good night 679.