patients are sicker, younger and many without preexisting conditions. what are they telling you once they re in the hospital? you know, i hope that we get to the place where dr. varga is right now. we re not seeing that in new hampshire. right now we have more covid patients in the icu than we ever have since the beginning of this pandemic. our icu is full and we ve had to create a second icu just to take care of the other patients. the patients that are coming in, i think they generally didn t think they would be sick or this sick from covid. a lot of them are younger and a lot of them don t have preexisting conditions and have been healthy before coming to the hospital. a lot of them are remorseful, they re scared, they re really worried. but i think a lot of them honestly didn t think they would get this sick. in terms of where we are in january of 2022 with regards to
state s new congressional maps could give republicans an outsized amount of power. and they are sicker, they are younger and it is scary. that s what one new hampshire doctor says about the new covid patients overwhelming her hospital. why she is saying this was all preventible and it is making her mad. making her mad. i ve not ever seen a patient here in the icu who s been fully vaccinated with a booster, not one. this doesn t have to happen and i m told it s going to get worse. n and i m told it s going to get worse. not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there s a better treatment than warfarin that s a trail i want to take. eliquis. eliquis reduces stroke risk better than warfarin. and has less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis has both. don t stop taking eliquis without talking to your doctor as this may increase your risk of stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding.
hugh pym joins me now. we have minutes from the latest meeting of government experts and data about how fast covid is spreading so what are we learning? yes, this is the office for national statistics survey, referred to in dominic s piece, which goes around the same households repeatedly in the same households repeatedly in the tens of thousands of households, to do spot checks. it picks up people who have not come forward with symptoms to get tested. it picks up those who are asymptomatic as well. it is seen as a very authoritative guide to what s going on, more so than the daily tests that we get and we have seen over the last few days. the latest study goes right up until sunday and compares with the study that went two or three days previously and it shows just in those three days how much the virus had spread to more people, adding 368,000 just in that time in terms of the week up until
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