bill: 9:30 new york, wall street. op than for trading. this is a rare sign, green arrows, up 200 points at the open. we were down 329 for the dow 30 yesterday for another point lower, which puts the dow in the bear market territory. so we re teetering around that area. want to bring in david asman to give a shake of where we re going today. what s the status? started with the stock market. it is good to remember what happened in january of 2021 when biden took over. the stock market, dow jones was at 31,000. it is 1,500 points off where it was when joe biden took over and also remember in january of 2021 the economy was growing at 6%. we ve had two negative quarters and inflation of 1.4%, it is
a&e is the gateway to the hospital. from here, patients need to be able to flow into wards and operating theatres to be treated. what happened to you? i fell over walking the dog. how long have you been here? since about 7 o clock last night. oh, my goodness, that s nearly. 14 hours. nick will be able to go home after he s seen the physio. but they ve looked after me fine, so can t fault this hospital at all. but 50 other people are still waiting to be moved out of the emergency department. anyone with a green arrowl by them is somebody who s ready to move to a ward. or ready to move out of the a&e. - there s a computer system showing the status of patients waiting here for a bed elsewhere in the hospital. so, you can see that - all of these patients here, they ve had their a&e treatment concluded, and they re waiting i for a bed somewhere else. that s a lot of green arrows, isn t it? the hospital s a bit like a hotel, and if somebody s not checked out of their room,
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
is incredibly tough. it s tight and it s very pressurised. but we are responding on a day by day basis. it takes a lot of commitment and a lot of energy and a lot of responsiveness and understanding from our staff. let s get started. first thing next morning, will there be enough beds for operations to go ahead? it is that flow through that is looking like the biggest challenge. we ve got a number of discharges already. omicron is starting to cause problems with staff here going off sick or self isolating. is there an issue with anaesthesia for the cardiac list at the moment? there is a little bit, but they re working on it, so hopefully we will find someone. we ve only got one - anaesthetist at the moment. but we are working on a second one? absolutely, absolutely. despite being one anaesthetist
across the midlands. good morning. so, what are you waiting for? today i m having aneurism. we re going to be doing a stent in your head for your aneurism. doing a stent, yes. and after that i should be fine. david gee has a weakness in a major blood vessel. his consultant s been monitoring him on an outpatient basis. how long have you been waiting to have this done? not too long, not too long. about six month. six months! we were keeping an eye on it. yes, that s right. now it s reached the size where we need to fix it. were you a bit worried as the time went on? i am worried, i m worried now because, you know, if, if it, er, breaks i mean, it s a day out with er, jesus. i m sure it won t. or buddy holly. i m sure it won t. david needs his operation now. the hospital has ringfenced some beds throughout covid for this type of medical