utility usually get some, sign a thumbs up as a player gets carted away. we didn t see that here which is kind of opening, the news gets good overnights. but it s not a nightmare, it s reality, a young man from western pennsylvania, living s dream, now in a hospital in critical condition. mark, you write about this all the time. players are getting bigger, players getting stronger, is this the coming of more dangerous and violent game. i mean, yes it is, the nfl will say left and right, that the game has never been safer, as the soundbite they always go to. and then once handles say this, put out press releases saying, hey look we ve done this in this, we have this initiative, and yet they ve moved their scheduled to 17 games. they ve expanded to 17, games up from 16 just two years ago, which is up from 14 about 30 years ago. they keep basically trying to print more money. this is what this is about
their respects to brazilian football legend pele, as he lies in state at his former club, santos. american football player damar hamlin is in a critical condition in hospital after collapsing during a game. and coming up we ve been talking to a guide dogs charity that s recruiting for more volunteers to tackle a shortage of trainers. we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we ve been very lucky lot of people have been so generous with their time, and we are in recovery mode and hopeful for the future but do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. politicians in russia have called
the agency s chief medical adviser, susan hopkins, says adults who are unwell should also stay home and should wear a face covering if they have to go out. they should avoid health care settings and vulnerable people. the reason for the concern, a rising number of cases of flu, covid and scarlet fever, which is caused by the strep a infection. nhs england says 9,500 people are currently in hospital with covid. add on to that almost 4000 people with flu, and it means 13% of hospital beds in england are being occupied by people with those two illnesses. and all this comes with doctors saying some a&e departments are already in a complete state of crisis, to the extent that it s causing patients harm. i come to work to treat patients, to make people better ultimately. that s why we go into it.
the agency s chief medical adviser, susan hopkins, says adults who are unwell should also stay home and should wear a face covering if they have to go out. they should avoid health care settings and vulnerable people. the reason for the concern, a rising number of cases of flu, covid and scarlet fever, which is caused by the strep a infection. nhs england says 9,500 people are currently in hospital with covid. add on to that almost 4000 people with flu, and it means 13% of hospital beds in england are being occupied by people with those two illnesses. and all this comes with doctors saying some a&e departments are already in a complete state of crisis, to the extent that it s causing patients harm. i come to work to treat patients, to make people better ultimately. that s why we go into it. it sounds very simple,
game cannot happen right now, and then you see the fans you see the bangles fans in the bills fans kind of sitting a vigil outside the hospital. it s not a little hesitant to criticize tonight, and hopefully this we can only hope is a happy ending here, i think we saw some of the best aspects of sports night, on all sides here. shawn brings out some very good points, and while those minutes fell like lifetime, danielle has never dealt like something like this before, and it is extraordinary. right, the nfl, to be fair,, has dealt with this before, a long time ago, but a player from the detroit lions did die on the field, in 1971, they play the rest of the game, is very different circumstance, and a very different time, and one of the great state in the league s history, it was after the president, president kennedy was assassinated, then