Now on bbc news, britain has one of the highest death toll from covid 19 in the world. This film follows staff at the Royal Hospital in london as they try to cope with a second way. And a warning, this programme contains content which some of may find it distressing. Shes young. Shes someone s relative. This is something precious that were holding and were trying to do. My wife lost her fight for life. Nobody wants to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on anybody. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the United Kingdom hard. I think the public want to do the right thing, but i dont feel they understand fully the scale of the problem. This is the story of one of the hospitals in the eye of the storm. So were now going to run into a problem because we havent got any beds. Weve got patients on 12 floors in total. Weve returned to the royal london, to witness for ten days the full force of the second wave of covid 19. Staff are tired, and then we have to ask them to do more and more and more
Coronavirus relief negotiations. Well also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. As the United States approaches 5 million confirmed covid19 cases, White House Coronavirus response coordinator dr. Deborah birx says that we have now entered a new phase of the pandemic. Good morning, its monday, august 3, 2020. We will start the program talking about that new phase. We will hear comments from dr. Birx on the state of the Union Yesterday and we will look at other headlines as well. Thes how to be a part of conversation. For those of you in the eastern and central time. 202 7488000 mountain and pacific, 202 7488001. Send us a text if you like, 202 7488003. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. Your tweets are welcome as well, cspanwj, and we will look for your posts on facebook. One view from abroad, bdc and the reporting on her comments yesterday, headline from the new phase oftering coronavirus out
The chief of the pediatric at Childrens National hospital. Thank you for being with us this morning. How many cases of covid19 have you treated among children of the hospital . Guest we started seeing cases in the middle of march, and we have now had over 600 children come to the hospital with symptoms. E have been admitted to the hospital, so about 150 of those and about a quarter of those or a 1 3 of those have needed our intensive care unit. Host whats the pattern among children, what do you see and how are their symptoms different from adults . Guest we really are seeing several different patterns of disease. So of those 600, the vast majority of them, and this really has been seen in other parts of the country as well, they have mild to moderate illness where they have typical respiratory symptoms either fever or cough and then have runny nose or sore throat so very mild moderate illness. The children admitted fall in several different categories. Some of them have what is similar
In the middle of march and now had over 600 children that have come to the hospital with symptoms, about a quarter of those have been admitted to the hospital, so about 150 of those and about a quarter of those or a 1 3 of those have needed our intensive care unit. Host whats the pattern among children, what do you see and how are their symptoms different from adults . Guest we really are seeing several different patterns of disease. So of those 600, the vast majority of them, and this really has been seen in other parts of the country as well, they have mild to moderate illness where they have typical respiratory symptoms either fever or cough and then have runny nose or sore throat so very mild moderate illness. The children admitted fall in several different categories. Some of them have what is similar to what the adults have seen with a severe pneumonia or clotting issues. But then we have another set of children very young who have a neonatal c fever, sepsis type picture. And our
Now on bbc news, britain has one of the highest death tolls from covid 19 in the world. Clive myrie s film follows staff at the Royal London Hospital as they try to cope with a second wave. A warning this programme contains content which some viewers may find distressing. Shes young. Shes someone s relative. This is something precious that were holding and were trying to do. My wife lost her fight for life. Nobody wants to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on anybody. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the United Kingdom hard. I think the public want to do the right thing, but i dont feel they understand fully the scale of the problem. This is the story of one of the hospitals in the eye of the storm. So were now going to run into a problem because we havent got any beds. Weve got patients on 12 floors in total. Weve returned to the royal london, to witness for ten days the full force of the second wave of covid 19. Staff are tired, and then we have to ask them to do more and more and