A FURTHER six patients with coronavirus have died at York and Scarborough hospitals. The latest figures from NHS England today show that the total number of patients with confirmed Covid to have died at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since the start of the pandemic had risen to 499. There have been a further 53 deaths in the North East and Yorkshire.
Joe Carter is the consultant in charge of Critical Care at York Hospital. He said: The physical and emotional toll of seeing patients die is awful. Having to deliver such terrible news to families over the phone is very upsetting and personally has been one of the most heart-breaking things about this pandemic. The physical toll is exhausting; the whole critical care team are tired and anxious. We are affected by the pandemic in our personal lives too, just like everyone else - feeling fed up outside of work, but we know the way to get through this is by staying home and keeping everyone safe.
More than three-quarters of all major hospital trusts in England are currently reporting fewer Covid-19 patients than at their second-wave peak, new analysis shows.
In some regions, such as eastern and south-east England, all but one trust has dropped below the level seen at the peak of the second wave of the virus.
The proportion of trusts still reporting a record number of Covid-19 patients is slightly higher in north-east and north-west England, however.
The analysis by the PA news agency found that of 140 acute hospital trusts which reported figures for January 26, 122 – or 87% – had fewer Covid-19 patients than at their second-wave peak.