that firm has around a hundred thousand customers. speaking to mps just hours before the latest two firms announced they would cease trading the boss of the uk s energy regulator 0fgem said he expected more firms to go bust, with huge numbers of people affected. gas prices are almost six times the level it was last year and indeed, it rose 70% in august. so we are in unprecedented cost territory. i m afraid there are many factors that have contributed to that, including an increase in international demand, potentially some restrictions around supply, so it s very hard to predict how long that will last. the sector has faced shocks and in fact we have talked about how we managed through the covid crisis which had a big impact on the energy sector overall but when you see that change, and i encourage you to have a look at the change in gas price, it really is something we don t think we have seen before, at this pace, we have seen exit from this market before, we have had up to double
that have contributed to that, including an increase in international demand, potentially some restrictions around supply, so it s very hard to predict how long that will last. the sector has faced shocks and in fact we have talked about how we managed through the covid crisis which had a big impact on the energy sector overall but when you see that change, and i encourage you to have a look at the change in gas price, it really is something we don t think we have seen before, at this pace, we have seen exit from this market before, we have had up to double digit numbers of companies exiting the market at a time so it s not unusual for supplies to go out of the market. i think what is different this time is the dramatic change in costs the suppliers are facing. we have had around, you know, we have had five roughly over the past few months, a number more at the start of the year. we do expect more, we expect more to not to be able to face the circumstances we are in but it s genuinely
everyone-sixteenth and older. the decision is at odds with the biden administration s initial plan to start administering boosters to the general public, a plan that was supposed to roll out just days from now. officials later clarified that any action would depend on a signoff from the fda and cdc. the vote comes as hospitals across the southeast are on short supply of staff and icu beds. alabama, for instance, seeing coronavirus deaths on the rise. we re still more than maxed out. we still have more patients requiring critical care than we have icu beds. we have double digit numbers of deaths which counts forsome of the decline in hospital numbers. it s important to remember, so much of this is preventible. case in point, only 41% of alabama residents have received
pandemic public health measures are an intolerable assault on personal freedom, a message many rank and file republicans apparently welcome. their basic message, your body, your choice, nobody else s business. and, of course, this was written before governor desantis threatened the salaries of school board members and superintendents. they re siding with death, the virus. to what political end for someone like governor desantis does this have? because ultimately the numbers are going to go against him in terms of the rise in death, rise in numbers. one hospital health system has 179 pediatric patients. these are kids. they can t get the vaccine yet. they re young as single digit numbers, and they re in the icu.
what could he face? what are the chances he would decide to flip and testify against more people with the trump organization which could include the president himself or his adult sons who were running the business while he was in office? sure. it s clear that allen weisselberg is a witness that you want to have. you always want to have the cfo testifying in a case like this. so prosecutors took a run at him before they brought this indictment. he undoubtedly knew what the allegations were, what the challenges were that would face him as he moved forward and decided for the moment to stay firmly on the side of the former president. the new york sentencing regime here probably leads to sentences that are modest, single digit numbers but weisselberg is in his 70s, it s a difficult time in life for anyone to go to prison, even for a relatively short amount of time, up until