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Fauci Thanks US Health Workers for Sacrifices but Admits PPE Shortages Drove Up Death Toll

Dr. Anthony Fauci thanked America’s health care workers, who “every single day put themselves at risk” during the pandemic, even as he acknowledged that PPE shortages had contributed to the deaths of more than 3,600 of them. “We rightfully refer to these people without hyperbole — that they are true heroes and heroines,” he said… Read More »

Huge hidden toll of virus revealed

Victoria’s second coronavirus wave has caused wait times for elective surgery to blow out, with thousands more on wait lists compared with the same time last year. Latest quarterly Victorian Agency for Health Information (VAHI) data shows 66,242 Victorians are waiting for operations surgery as of September 2020 compared with 44,860 at the same time… Read More »

Increasing demand on services for mental healthcare taking toll

The most difficult calls come at night. Last month, Rory Fitzgerald was working overnight as a volunteer manning the Samaritans phone line. For some people, the darkness does affect them,” he said. Mr Fitzgerald, the regional director who has volunteered with the service since 2010, is based in Waterford but was fielding calls from all… Read More »

Coronavirus UK: 13 new fatalities in preliminary daily death toll

Officials record 13 more coronavirus victims in hospitals in England but none in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland amid confusion over government’s decision to have five different death tolls Scotland today marked four full weeks without a single death from coronavirus, its government revealed A full round-up of the total number of Covid-19 fatalities will… Read More »

Britain records 17 more coronavirus deaths in preliminary toll

Department of Health and Social Care withdraws official UK Coronavirus daily death toll of 114 after Secretary of State Matt Hancock orders review into ‘statistical flaws’ Department of Health figures show 82 Britons are now succumbing to the life-threatening infection each day The seven-day average was 74 last Friday. More than 1,000 people died each day… Read More »