The mentaL Health of elIte athletes has been thrown Into sharp focus by the actIons of sportsmen and women at the tokyo games and other recent hIgh profIle tournaments. SImone bIles the Poster GIrl of Team Usa pulled out of the majorIty of her gymnastIc events, cItIng her mentaL Health. She saId, we have to protect our mInds and our bodIes out and do what the world wants us to do. Away from the games, ahead of the test agaInst IndIa, the england and wales CrIcket Board announced that Ben Stokes would take a break from crIcket IndefInItely to focus on hIs Mental wellbeIng. And the japanese TennIs Player NaomI Osaka saId she would not do news conferences, wIthdrew from the French Open and dId not play at wImbledon, admIttIng she had experIenced long bouts of depressIon sInce wInnIng herfIrst grand Slam TItle In 2018. The decIsIon by hIgh profIle athletes to talk openly about theIr mentaL Health at the tokyo games and other events has sparked a new conversatIon, and prompted both support,
coronavirus surging in an already fragile economy the united states is bracing for a tough winter american employers sharply scaled back hiring in the last month adding just 245000 jobs the fewest since april president elect joe biden says quick action is needed to reverse what he described as one of the worst economic crises in modern history the folks out there aren t looking for a handout they just need help they are in trouble through no fault of their own nothing they did cause them to have hours cut or lose your job or drop out of the market but they need they need us to understand when a crisis need to come together as a nation need the congress to act and act now. biden has highlighted the plight of working class americans and struggling business owners speaking to those who have lost jobs in the service industry and public sector in a virtual round table discussion earlier this week like karen coffey who lost her job working in a sports stadium we do we have a lot of
a care home in new castle. remember the care home sector across the country across the entire united kingdom has been unduly hit by the pandemic throughout the course of the past 9 months suffering disproportionate numbers of deaths care home residents some 400000 of them across the country and care home workers living various degrees of a pretty precarious existence underage conditions of extreme emotional stress and uncertainty visits the life blood for many of these elderly people have been curtailed in some cases simply vandel together in israel anticipation about an end to all of this about a return to normal life the problem they ve got here and elsewhere i suspect the management here tell us is that they simply don t know when the vaccine will be rolled out to settings like this the government says within 2 weeks the management here say look we ve seen these promises made and broken so many times in the pandemic they are all too aware about the difficulty in handling t
vaccines for the u.s. before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. it s clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of international contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the national procurement act seldom used. to force companies to actually comply
imposed is that when. the region s hospitals fall below 15 percent of intensive care unit capacity then these restrictions kick in and here in southern california which includes los angeles san diego and many other cities the i.c.u. capacity has been dropping steadily on saturday it was 12.5 percent on sunday it was 10.3 percent we don t have the figures for monday yet but it looks like that s going to that trend is likely to continue there were 10500 new cases of cold 19 on sunday so with hospitals being overwhelmed they have no place to transfer up patients and if i see you capacity runs out it s not only. 1000 patients that we re talking about anyone who has a heart attack a stroke you know be ill with cancer or anything else an auto accident they need to be transferred to the i.c.u. and if the i.c.u. is full. you know it s it s obviously it s a it s a health disaster as well as an economic disaster for many people in this part of the country in other developments the u.k.