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Similar period last year. how much of a breakdown we get? do they i similar period last year. how much i of a breakdown we get? do they look at it area by area, hospital by hospital, or is this an overview? ii hospital, or is this an overview? if you look at what is happening across england, these are england figures, but wales, scotland, northern ireland are facing some of the same pressures. in scotland, the delays are not quite as bad but this is very much a uk issue. if we look across england there is a problem in the south west, we have had this for a while over the summer, in the midlands, the east midlands and in the east of the country. 29% of ambulances, so almost one in three, are having to wait 30 minutes when they arrive at hospital to get patients off. if you look at the norwich and norfolk hospital, in the east of the country, that figure goes up from 29% to 73%. these are big figures. it is important to say, as i alluded to at the beginning, we are currently in november, ....
That s a separate problem. that s not where people are going to die in the near term. people are going to die in the near term because they walk into a hospital and there s no bed are a ventilator because there s either no bed or no staff or no ppe or no ventilator. that s what s going to happen. i think this is the only way to avoid it. look, i believe the american people are there. how many times have we seen a disaster across this country and how many americans just show up to help? it s in the american dna to say we re here to help one another. it is e pluribus unum. i didn t have to put this on the seal. that s just a reminder. we re a community, we re americans, we re a family, we re brothers and sisters. there s a commonality. you re a new yorker, you re from ....
We re going to share resources. we re not going to have any part of the state that doesn t have the resources they need because we didn t share resources. we are tracking every night, every hospital, who comes in, what they have, what they need. and we re just sharing and shifting resources which is the only intelligent thing to do among one group of people. right now the numbers in upstate new york are lighter than the numbers in downstate new york. but that is going to change. it is in new york city. now you re seeing long island start to light up. we had westchester light up. numbers are growing in erie. you re going to see waves move ....