we re joined now by professor rupert pearse, an intensive care consultant. it is good to have you with us this morning. i don t know how much of our previous conversation you are able to hear there but i want to talk first of all about that milestone, 150,000 deaths. as we were discussing, every one of those is a personal tragedy. it is a loss to a family, it is an individual story. just first of all, your reaction to hitting that room milestone. reaction to hitting that room milestone- reaction to hitting that room milestone. ~ ., , , milestone. well, i mean, it is very sad listening milestone. well, i mean, it is very sad listening to milestone. well, i mean, it is very sad listening to paige s milestone. well, i mean, it is very sad listening to paige s story, - milestone. well, i mean, it is very sad listening to paige s story, and | sad listening to paige s story, and it is exactly as you described in the piece. covid there may have been 150,000 deaths, but each one of th
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who have had one or two doses of the vaccine, it means we have millions more people who are getting infections with m stick my omicron who would not with delta and if you have high enough numbers, you will have high enough numbers, you will have enough people who need hospital treatment to put severe pressure on health services and because it is so much more transmissible than delta, yourinner much more transmissible than delta, your inner situation where even if your inner situation where even if you do not get that sick, you can potentially infect people who will get really sick. i think as a nation, we want to protect the nhs stop it is already exhausted after nearly two years of this pandemic, they are already under severe pressure and any extra pressure from covid reduces services for everybody, and we do not want to be in a situation where you can t get sick in winter, so i think from just a community point of view, we want to reduce infection. i m joined by professor rupert pear
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HE was the UK’s first recorded Covid victim - but he was also a loving husband, father and grandfather.
Peter Attwood, 84, from Chatham, Kent, died in hospital exactly a year ago today - the first person known to have died from coronavirus on British soil.
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Peter Atwood was the first person to die in Britain of coronavirusCredit: Collect
This week, as the UK virus death toll supasses 100,000, there is a horrifying twist to Peter’s story.
His beloved wife of 50 years has also tested positive for the killer bug.
It means Jean, 86, who suffers from dementia, will spend the first anniversary of her husband’s death in isolation at the care home where she now lives.
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