LATEST: United Kingdom records 91,743 cases over the last 24 hours, bringing the U.K.'s weekly total to 584,688—a 60.8% increase from the previous week.
That brings the U.K.'s weekly total to 584,688 – a 60.8% increase from the previous week.Paramedics works inside an ambulance parked outside the Royal London hospital in London, Dec. 20, 2021.Paramedics unload a patient from the back of an ambulance parked outside the Royal London hospital in London, Dec. 20, 2021.
Government ministers are holding a cabinet meeting to discuss potential new measures to curb the spread.Share to TwitterEighteen states have an ICU capacity of 15% or less. Michigan in particular has been struggling through its latest COVID-19 surge for nearly three months. Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit is seeing an increased number of ventilators in use and the"overwhelming majority" of patients on ventilators are unvaccinated,Sarah Rauner, a chief nurse practitioner at Beaumont Health, told ABC News,"I have seen and witnessed things in the last two years that have forever changed me."
"I remember thinking to myself when we were going through the third surge, 'What are we going to do if there's a fourth?' And here we are in the middle of a fourth surge in the holidays. I am very concerned," she said."We are burnt out. We are tired and we are disheartened. So much of what we see on a daily basis is preventable. However, we are still living this every day.
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