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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11912176" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="orlando" source="Orion">Orlando</keyword> officials are urging residents to limit <keyword id="15300" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="water" source="Orion">water</keyword> use amid <keyword id="11912175" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="liquid-oxygen" source="Orion">liquid oxygen</keyword> shortages.</li><li>Liquid oxygen supply is being diverted to hospitals to treat <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword> patients as infections surge.</li><li>But liquid oxygen is also used to treat the water supply, a lack of which could impact the quality of the city's water.</li></ul>Orlando officials are urging residents to reduce their water consumption amid efforts to divert liquid oxygen used for cleaning the water supply to hospitals for COVID-19 patients.Liquid oxygen has been in high demand as the city faces a surge of <keyword id="11893194" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus" source="Orion">coronavirus</keyword> patients, especially given the rapid spread of the Delta variant. As of Friday, the state reported a little more than 150,000 confirmed cases, surpassing 3 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the state.The Orlando Utilities Commission uses liquid oxygen to treat and remove hydrogen sulfide in water for drinking and other uses."Demand for liquid oxygen is extremely high as the priority is to use it to save lives and to treat critically ill patients," Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said at a news conference Friday. "There are impacts to the supply that OUC normally receives.""Our hospitals are experiencing the highest number of unvaccinated, critically ill patients at this point as any other point during the pandemic," Dyer continued. "Many of these patients require liquid oxygen."Dyer and the OUC asked residents on Friday to reduce their nonessential water consumption, including limiting watering their lawns, washing their cars, and taking short showers."If we are unable to reduce water demand, hospital needs continue, and the supply remains limited, OUC water quality may be impacted," Linda Ferrone, OUC Chief Customer and Marketing Officer, said in a <a href="https://www.ouc.com/about-ouc/news/2021/08/20/mayor-dyer-and-ouc-encourage-customers-to-limit-watering-lawns-immediately-to-conserve-resources-needed-to-treat-covid-patients">statement</a>. "But, we believe that will not happen if everyone does their part to conserve water."The "extremely high demand" and shortage in liquid oxygen, according to Dyer, comes as <keyword id="11910362" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="florida" source="Orion">Florida</keyword> Gov. Ron DeSantis <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-threatens-withhold-paychecks-school-board-defy-his-mask-ban-2021-8">continues to wage a war</a> on mask mandates and vaccine requirements. The state faces one of the highest coronavirus infection rates in the country, correlating to Florida's low vaccination rates.As of Thursday, about 65% of eligible residents in Orange County, Florida, have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as the total number of confirmed cases in the county approaches 200,000, according to data collected by the <a href="https://newsroom.ocfl.net/media-advisories/press-releases/2021/07/coronavirus-updates-6/">Orange County government</a>. Dyer credited the possible impact on the city's water quality to low vaccination rates in the city."It's another result of what happens when the residents do not get vaccinated," the mayor said.

Orlando urges residents to limit water use as liquid oxygen for treating the water supply is being diverted to hospitals for COVID-19 patients

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Some <keyword id="6354803" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Los-Angeles">Los Angeles</keyword> hospitals are struggling with shortages of oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients, the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/oxygen-supply-shortages-bedevil-hospitals-already-overwhelmed-by-covid-19-patients">Los Angeles Times</a> reported. </li><li>COVID patients typically require ten times as much oxygen as non-COVID patients, and demand has strained the pipes of aging hospitals. </li><li>Los Angeles has seen a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases during the holidays, and public health officials are worried about the city's ability to handle any further surges. </li></ul>At least five hospitals in Los Angeles County declared themselves internal disasters and were forced to reroute ambulances to other facilities over concerns about oxygen supply, the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/oxygen-supply-shortages-bedevil-hospitals-already-overwhelmed-by-covid-19-patients">Los Angeles Times</a> reported. The Times reported that several hospitals were facing shortages of oxygen canisters and that pipes in hospitals were breaking down because of the high volumes of oxygen being sent through the system.Non-COVID patients typically require around six liters of oxygen a minute, according to the Times, but COVID-19 patients need 60 to 80 liters a minute.Los Angeles has seen a surge of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths following the holidays. At one hospital, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/los-angeles-hospital-forced-treat-covid-19-patients-gift-shop-2020-12">the gift shop and chapel had been converted to treatment areas.</a>As of Monday, Los Angeles had an average of more than 14,000 daily new cases over the past week, according to data compiled by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/california-coronavirus-cases.html">The New York Times.</a>The LA Times added that the positivity rate of COVID-19 tests is now at 17% in LA County, which more than four times the positivity rate the county had on November 1. When it comes to oxygen, the demand is so high in some hospitals that the system can't maintain the needed pressure. In other cases, the high flow of oxygen has caused the pipes to freeze. Public health officials and <keyword id="6354525" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="healthcare">healthcare</keyword> workers have said that they don't see the surge peaking anytime soon and they are concerned that the healthcare systems may not have the capacity to properly treat everyone if cases keep climbing. "All indicators tell us that our situation may only get worse as we begin 2021. The rate of community transmission remains extraordinarily high…. As cases continue to remain at these alarmingly high levels, hundreds more people are likely to die," Barbara Ferrer, LA County's public health director told the Times.Dr. Tamara Chambers, an ICU physician at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center told Business Insider that the issue isn't just with limited beds to host patients, it's also having enough qualified healthcare workers to treat all the incoming patients. Chambers said healthcare workers at her facility have gotten ill with COVID-19 themselves meaning there's less staff to take care of patients. "I think we're being referred to as the frontline, but really we're the last line. We rely on public health and safety measures. We rely on people to stay home. We are trying to be the last line and provide the last level of care and support but there's only so much we can do," Chambers said. "The hospital is only so big, only has so many workers."Chambers encouraged Americans to take precautionary measures to avoid hospitals all together. "It's really imperative that everybody stays home, socially distances, and follows all of the public health measures," she said.

As COVID-19 cases surge in Los Angeles, hospitals are running out of oxygen

<ul class="summary-list"><li>As <keyword id="11971645" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hurricane-ida" source="Orion">Hurricane Ida</keyword> approached land, some <keyword id="11963694" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hospitals" source="Orion">hospitals</keyword> were low on oxygen, <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/hospitals-in-u-s-south-run-low-on-oxygen-amid-covid-and-storm">Bloomberg Law</a> reported.</li><li>Health officials in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina told <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/29/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html">CNN</a> they were running low.</li><li>On Sunday morning, Hurricane Ida was <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/290918.shtml">about 75 miles south</a> of the mouth of the Mississippi River. </li></ul>Some southern hospitals had less than 24 hours worth of oxygen supply in reserve as <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword> rose and Hurricane Ida made its way toward land, reports said.Premier Inc., a <keyword id="11897506" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="healthcare" source="Orion">healthcare</keyword> supply company, told The White House and the Federal Emergency Management Agency that supply was low, <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/hospitals-in-u-s-south-run-low-on-oxygen-amid-covid-and-storm">Bloomberg Law</a> reported. A public affairs staffer at Premier said there was "so much more demand for oxygen than there ever has been," Bloomberg reported. State health officials in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina said some hospitals were at risk of running out of oxygen, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/29/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html">CNN</a> reported.On Wednesday, The Florida Hospital Association said there were 68 local hospitals with less than 48 hours of oxygen available, according to <a href="https://www.wmfe.org/survey-68-florida-hospitals-have-less-than-48-hours-worth-of-oxygen/188797">WMFE</a>, an NPR station in central Florida.The National Hurricane Center early Sunday issued an advisory saying the Category 4 hurricane had strengthened and was <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/290918.shtml">about 75 miles south</a> of the mouth of the Mississippi River. President Joe Biden on Saturday approved an emergency declaration for Mississippi, The White House said in <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-mississippi-emergency-declaration/">a statement</a>. Biden spoke with officials from the Hurricane Center and FEMA on Saturday, The White House said. "They discussed the precautions that are being taken at the mega shelters the American Red Cross is opening to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including masking, rapid testing, and social distancing," The White House said in <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/readout-of-president-bidens-conversations-with-fema-and-national-hurricane-center/">a readout</a> of the call.The American Red Cross said in <a href="https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2021/storm-headed-to-gulf-coast-get-ready-now.html">its own statement</a> that it had about 500 volunteers working on support for those in Ida's path. The organization was prepping shelters in states from Texas to Florida, it said.

As COVID cases soar and Hurricane Ida approaches, some hospitals in southern states have less than 24 hours worth of oxygen

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Doctors in England have warned that National Health Service staff at "breaking point," and hospitals are running out of oxygen.</li><li>It comes amid an alarming new surge in COVID-19 patients across the country, with scientists warning that a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-new-coronavirus-strain-what-we-know-2020-12">new, possibly more infectious coronavirus variant</a> is responsible for a steep rise in infections.</li><li>There are now more COVID-19 patients in hospital than at any other point in the pandemic, and the London Ambulance Service said that December 26 was one of its "busiest ever" days.</li><li>A hospital in south London was forced to declare an "internal incident" over the weekend over the strain on services.</li><li>Some facilities in the city have also been forced to divert ambulances amid concerns over oxygen supply, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-london-queen-elizabeth-hospital-oxygen-b1779468.html">according to the Independent</a>.</li></ul>Doctors in England are warning that National Health Service staff are at "breaking point," and hospitals are running out of oxygen amid an alarming new surge in COVID-19 patients across the country.Official <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/COVID-19-daily-admissions-and-beds-20201228.xlsx">NHS figures</a> show that there are now more patients with COVID-19 in hospital than there were at the previous peak in the spring, while the London Ambulance Service said Boxing Day was one of its "<a href="https://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/2020/12/27/please-help-us-to-help-you-during-extremely-busy-time/">busiest ever</a>" days.The <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword>'s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, said in a December 19 statement that <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-from-chief-medical-officer-professor-chris-whitty-about-new-strain-of-covid-19">a new more infectious variant</a> of the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> could be partly responsible for a recent rise in infections.The number of daily cases recorded in the UK rose to its highest ever on Monday with 40,000 new confirmed cases, according to <a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/">government figures</a>.Increased household mixing over Christmas has also prompted concerns that the situation could become even worse in January.According to <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-london-queen-elizabeth-hospital-oxygen-b1779468.html">the Independent</a>, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in London - where the new coronavirus variant is particularly prevalent - was forced to divert ambulances to other hospitals amid concerns about its oxygen supply.Patients with severe cases of COVID-19 are often placed on ventilation machines which require oxygen.The hospital is part of the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, which <a href="https://t.co/YkELE6AnJw?amp=1">in a statement said</a> it had declared an internal incident on Sunday as a "precautionary measure."Ambulances were asked to take emergency patients to nearby hospitals because the number of COVID-19 patients meant there was more demand for oxygen pipes than there was supply, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-london-queen-elizabeth-hospital-oxygen-b1779468.html">according to the Independent</a>.Several other hospitals in London had also been forced to declare major incidents this past week, the outlet added.<h2>'Breaking point'</h2>Dr. Samantha Batt-Rawden, a senior intensive care registrar and president of the Doctors' Association UK - an association representing over 46,000 NHS doctors - <a href="https://twitter.com/sbattrawden/status/1343660428786884608?s=20">said this week that NHS staff were at "breaking point,"</a> partly because so many had become ill since the new coronavirus variant emerged."We are incredibly thin on the ground," Batt-Rawden tweeted. "NHS staff have not been prioritised for the vaccine and are going off sick in droves with the new strain."Batt-Rawden also shared a now-deleted post from an NHS board in Wales asking for medical students to provide support with proning COVID-19 patients, a treatment by which patients are laid on their fronts for an extended period.Figures published by <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/COVID-19-daily-admissions-and-beds-20201228.xlsx">NHS England</a> show that there were 20,426 confirmed COVID-19 patients in English hospitals as of 8 a.m. on December 28. That figure was higher for the first time than the previous <a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare">peak in April of 18,974</a>.<div type="image" title="uk coronavirus patients in hospital" height="707" width="1200" msid="80014247" hostid="261"></div>Those figures appear likely to rise dramatically as the new variant spreads through England.Professor Andrew Hayward, an infectious-diseases expert who advises the UK government on COVID-19, said the government needed to introduce further restrictions on social mixing to avoid "catastrophe" in the new year."We're going to need decisive, early, national action to prevent a catastrophe in January and February," Hayward told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain/uk-needs-tighter-covid-rules-to-avert-new-catastrophe-epidemiologist-warns-idUSKBN2930QW">the BBC on Tuesday</a>. The comments were <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain/uk-needs-tighter-covid-rules-to-avert-new-catastrophe-epidemiologist-warns-idUSKBN2930QW">cited by Reuters</a>.The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, a separate group which advises the government on its coronavirus response, has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson to shut schools in January to prevent an even more severe rise in coronavirus infections in January, according to <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-uk-government-scientists-close-schools-january-boris-johnson/">Politico</a>.Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, on Monday said he was "<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55466147">confident</a>" that there would be a "staggered" return to secondary schools as planned."We are confident that we will be able to get schools back in good order. Our plan and our timetable is there, and we are working with teachers to deliver it," he <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55466147">told BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme</a>.

London hospitals are diverting ambulances and declaring 'major incidents' over oxygen shortages, as coronavirus infections surge in England

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Medical staff in <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword> <keyword id="6365858" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hospitals">hospitals</keyword> told Insider they're struggling to cope with the chaos of the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> crisis.</li><li>Dr. Tom Dolphin, who works in a London hospital, said the oxygen tank outside is creaking from the amount needed for <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> patients.</li><li>Cancer wards are being emptied to make way for coronavirus patients, Dr. Danish Dewan told Insider.</li></ul>As you walk past the oxygen tank outside one London hospital, you can hear it creaking and clanking because of just how much oxygen it's pumping out to support patients inside the building.That's according to Dr. Tom Dolphin, an anaesthetic consultant in the city, who told Insider that medical staff across the UK are anxious about oxygen running out. <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="health">Health</keyword> Secretary Matt Hancock said Tuesday that the health service wasn't facing an oxygen shortage - but admitted some hospitals may have to transfer COVID-19 patients to other hospitals to get them the oxygen they need. Without sufficient oxygen supplies, doctors and nurses can't properly treat patients suffering from shortness of breath - one of the many symptoms of COVID-19.Diminishing oxygen levels are just one part of a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-coronavirus-uk-variant-cases-2021-1">serious crisis brewing in the country</a>. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is on the brink of collapse as floods of patients suffering from COVID-19 overwhelm hospitals, and a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/graph-soaring-uk-covid-19-cases-since-coronavirus-variant-found-2021-1">recent surge in cases</a> will likely make things work.According to the latest <a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/">government statistics</a>, 417,570 Brits tested positive between January 4 and 10, which is 14% more than the previous week. UK prime minister Boris Johnson <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55649426">said</a> in a meeting Wednesday there was a "very substantial" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being "overtopped." He added that the situation in the NHS was "very, very tough" and the pressure on staff was "colossal".Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55612270">warned</a> Monday that the country was entering the "most dangerous time" of the pandemic and that the "next few weeks are going to be the worst" for the NHS.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-covid-vaccine-without-skipping-line-reporter-experience-2021-1?r=kd-sub">I was offered a covid vaccine even though I'm young and healthy. Here's how I did it.</a>Dolphin told Insider that hospitals across the nation suddenly got very busy in the 48 hours after January 6. He said that NHS staff are so afraid of services being stretched that some hospitals will likely have to shut their doors to patients without COVID-19, and send them to other hospitals."The sheer size of this wave and the ferocity of it has really left us struggling as an NHS nationally to cope, which is why we're seeing people being treated in car parks in some hospitals," Dolphin said.In some cases, patients are waiting up to 10 hours in the back of ambulances to be transferred into hospitals, a leading paramedic, Tracy Nicholls, told <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-crisis-putting-unprecedented-pressure-on-ambulance-crews-12184220">Sky News</a> on January 10.<keyword id="6354525" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="healthcare">Healthcare</keyword> staff are used to distressing scenes - but the relentlessness of the current pressure means doctors are "absolutely run ragged" and "suffering psychologically" trying to keep the health service together, Dolphin said.He referred to a <a href="https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/almost-half-of-uk-doctors-suffering-from-burnout-depression-or-anxiety-bma-survey-reveals">British Medical Association study</a> that revealed nearly half of doctors have developed depression, anxiety, stress, or burnout from their work.This will have long-term consequences for the NHS, Dolphin said.<h3>Cancer operations are being postponed</h3>After <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-coronavirus-strain-uk-spread-experts-unsure-2020-12">a new, more transmissible coronavirus strain</a> was found in south-east England in December, and has since spread round the country, UK hospitals have become some of the fullest in Europe. Medical staff have been forced to cancel planned operations because COVID-19 sufferers are displacing other patients.On January 6, an NHS presentation to senior doctors, reported by the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6bf817cf-9ee6-4231-8f04-e86ae68bf0c6?accessToken=zwAAAXb88Zcgkc9r-BfPnuZCMdOPBOhq5ovwxg.MEYCIQCBrMhJTmQhzQ7k_MgtXLAIVvqZczag8eVPy_tAj-1BfAIhAIhMGGFoAKy3mBi0J7q6f9FzC1_GiPbZJDdzgEGlKwbC&amp;sharetype=gift?token=5f9b5b0b-2a43-4047-93c8-34595a7f5f0a5f0a">Financial Times</a>, forecasted hospitals in London would be short of nearly 2,000 beds by January 19 as a "best-case scenario." The following day, NHS officials <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6bf817cf-9ee6-4231-8f04-e86ae68bf0c6?accessToken=zwAAAXb88Zcgkc9r-BfPnuZCMdOPBOhq5ovwxg.MEYCIQCBrMhJTmQhzQ7k_MgtXLAIVvqZczag8eVPy_tAj-1BfAIhAIhMGGFoAKy3mBi0J7q6f9FzC1_GiPbZJDdzgEGlKwbC&amp;sharetype=gift?token=5f9b5b0b-2a43-4047-93c8-34595a7f5f0a5f0a">warned</a> that 800 patients were being admitted to hospitals in the capital city every day, and that the health service would be overwhelmed in two weeks if cases don't drop significantly.London will send hundreds of soldiers into hospitals to support struggling intensive care units, the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-military-nhs-staffing-hospitals-london-b1787324.html">Independent</a> reported Thursday."Some cancer work is being postponed again like it was in March and April which is not where we want to be. But we just don't have the staff, the space, or the capacity in the hospital to manage those patients," Dolphin said.This isn't just the case in London.Dr. Danish Dewan currently works as a locum doctor in a hospital in Kent, south-east England. He told Insider that the cancer ward at the hospital has been emptied to accommodate COVID-19 patients.<h3><div type="image" title="coronavirus hospital UK" height="1228" width="2000" msid="80288556" hostid="261"></div></h3>"Every day or every week a new ward has to be opened up to accommodate the new patients, and subsequently we have to hire more and more temporary staff," Dewan said.Every one of his patients has "<keyword id="8764262" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid">COVID</keyword> pneumonia" written next to their name, he said.Seeing patients with the same illness every hour of every day can be tiresome, according to Dewan, who said life for most doctors, despite the chaos enveloping the health system, can be almost "dull" in its repetitiveness."It's the mundanity of it ... Every single patient coming into the hospital has COVID," he said.Hospitals in Nottingham, in the East Midlands region, are seeing a rise in COVID-19-related admissions and have more patients now than during the peak of the first wave in April, according to Dr. Keith Girling, a medical director at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust."The increase in COVID positive cases within our hospitals started to accelerate over the Christmas period which is very concerning," Girling said in a statement, but added they are making "excellent progress" on vaccinations.<h3>The rollout of the <keyword id="24209" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="vaccine">vaccine</keyword> has been "chaotic"</h3>Instead of doing his normal job anaesthetizing patients for operations and other procedures, Dolphin has retrained, and now spends his days vaccinating as many people as he can.In order to be able to keep services afloat, Dolphin said that all healthcare workers must be vaccinated by the end of January. More than one in seven staff are off work sick in some hospitals, he said.According to the chair of the British Medical Association, Chaand Nagpaul, there are more than 46,000 hospital staff off sick with COVID-19, per the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/09/doctors-raise-alarm-as-covid-strikes-down-nhs-workforce">Guardian</a> - nearly 4% of the entire <a href="https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-workforce#:~:text=There%20are%20more%20than%20187%2C000,nurses%2C%20midwives%2C%20etc).">1.3 million</a> NHS workforce.Johnson <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-55619562">said</a> Monday that 2 million people in the country have already received a coronavirus vaccine, and about 400,000 people have had two doses. The plan is to get 13 million people vaccinated by mid-February - but Dolphin described the vaccine rollout as "chaotic.""We are at that point of potential catastrophe for the NHS and if we don't vaccinate the healthcare staff first, there won't be an NHS for people to come to."Nearly half of London's hospital workers, including ambulance workers, cleaners, porters, and frontline nurses, are still waiting to be offered a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a survey by the trade union GMB, cited by the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-nhs-london-latest-b1787198.html">Independent</a> Wednesday.Dolphin compared it to a passenger on a plane putting an oxygen mask on someone else before themselves. "You've got to look after the healthcare staff otherwise we're not going to be there to help everybody else."<h3>Hospitals are "stretched to their limits"</h3>Staff shortages are rife in Scotland, too. An NHS nurse at a Scottish hospital, who calls herself <a href="https://twitter.com/NHSActivistRN">NHSActivistRN</a> on Twitter and declined to giver her name for privacy reasons, emphasized the impact of the shortages on medics working in hospitals.She told Insider via Twitter that shortages mean staff are being moved to other areas of the hospital to work with people they don't know, which is "disconcerting." As well as shifts being very demanding, she also said staff fear catching coronavirus on the wards and passing it to their families."Many staff aren't vaccinated, so we don't have that protection," she said. NHS England did not respond to a request for comment. The Scottish government said questions should be addressed to local NHS teams. NHS Glasgow and Clyde said it could not comment from a national perspective, instead directing Insider to the Scottish government.Dr. Naz Sakib, who works in north-west England, also told Insider via Twitter that his hospital was "stretched to its limits with regards to staffing levels and increased service pressure." While he declined to give specifics, he said staff are finding their days very challenging, and urged the public to "keep us in your thoughts."

The UK's hospital system is on the brink of collapse, forcing overworked staff to postpone cancer treatments, stretch oxygen supplies, and put themselves at risk of catching COVID-19

As <keyword id="8764262" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="covid" source="Orion">Covid</keyword> cases in <keyword id="1334" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="china" source="Orion">China</keyword> continue to rise, Beijing will soon start distributing Pfizer's Covid-19 drug <keyword id="12474541" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="paxlovid" source="Orion">Paxlovid</keyword> to the community health centres in the coming days, the CNN reported citing state media. According to the state-run China News Service, after getting trained, community doctors would dispense the medicine to Covid-19 patients and also disseminate information on how to use it. "We have received a notice from officials but it is not clear when the drug will arrive," CNN cited a worker at a local community health centre in Beijing's Xicheng district as saying. Paxlovid remains the only foreign Covid drug that has been approved by China's regulator for nationwide use, but access to the medicine is a challenging process. China's National Health Security Administration informed on Sunday that Pfizer's Paxlovid oral medicine, which is used to deal with Covid-19, couldn't be included in the "register of drugs in the basic medical insurance", as the corporate's citation was too excessive, media reports said. Meanwhile, the demand for Indian generic drugs has shot up in China amid the ongoing Covid surge in the country, with specialists cautioning that dubious variations of those drugs were flooding the market. Due to the large and quick supply of Paxlovid, demand for Indian generic variations via Chinese e-commerce platforms has gone up. "On the Chinese e-commerce platforms... At least four generic Covid drugs produced in India -- Primovir, <keyword id="16008657" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="paxista" source="Orion">Paxista</keyword>, Molnunat, and <keyword id="16008658" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="molnatris" source="Orion">Molnatris</keyword> -- have been listed for sale in recent weeks. Primovir and Paxista are both generic versions of Paxlovid, while the other two are generic versions of Molnipiravir," Chinese media outlet Sixth Tone reported. Following countrywide demonstrations over its 'Zero Covid' policy, China abruptly abandoned it last month after nearly three years of lockdowns, quarantines, and mass testing. The rapid policy change has triggered panic buying of fever and cold medications, resulting in significant shortages at pharmacies and online shopping platforms. Long lineups have become the norm outside fever clinics and hospital wards in the country's capital, Beijing, and elsewhere, according to CNN. After China abandoned its 'Zero Covid' policy about two weeks ago, regional numbers of infected persons with coronavirus point to explosive outbreaks and overstretched healthcare systems, wrote Chang Che, Asia technology correspondent for The New York Times (NYT). However, the intensity and magnitude of the country's first nationwide outbreak have remained a mystery as official figures from the central government remain low. China's healthcare system, catering to 1.4 billion people, is reportedly under tremendous strain because of the steep prices of drugs manufactured by multinational pharmaceutical giants. As things stand, the hospitals are all full, whether government or private, a report said, adding that there is no place for more patients to get admission. Getting a bed is out of the question, while walkways and aisles are full of patients lying on damp floors, the report said. The majority of the patients are left to their fates outside of the government health apparatus, the report said, adding that millions do not have access to medicine, oxygen, respiratory machines or other medical equipment. The only thing they access is a medical drip, it said. Fears of the elderly losing their lives either to the infection or their comorbidities are growing because of these inadequacies, reported The HK Post, adding that most of the elderly patients are developing other health complications, especially lung infections. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/covovax-vaccine-to-get-approval-as-a-booster-in-10-15-days-adar-poonawalla/articleshow/96843527.cms">Covovax vaccine to get approval as a booster in 10-15 days: Adar Poonawalla</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/online-schools-back-in-lucknow-as-cold-wave-intensifies/articleshow/96845569.cms">Online schools back in Lucknow as cold wave intensifies</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6354576" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facebook">Facebook</keyword>, Twitter, and <keyword id="790242" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="WhatsApp">Whatsapp</keyword> have been flooded with desperate calls for COVID-19 help from people in <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>.</li><li>Doctors, politicians, and patients are seeking <keyword id="6355647" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oxygen">oxygen</keyword>, ICU beds, and blood plasma.</li><li>India's COVID-19 daily cases hit a world record on Sunday, with 350,000 new cases.</li></ul>In India, social-media platforms are flooded with requests for oxygen, intensive care unit (ICU) beds, and blood plasma amid the deepening COVID-19 crisis.India recorded <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-india-cases-rising-record-infections-coronavirus-2021-4">more than 350,000 daily COVID-19 cases</a> on Sunday, breaking the world record for the fifth consecutive day.Doctors, politicians, and COVID-19 patients and their loved ones are using hashtags #CovidSOS and #COVIDEmergency2021 in Twitter posts to plead for supplies, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/25/22402273/twitter-whatsapp-facebook-triage-center-india-oxygen-hospital-coronavirus">The Verge</a> first reported. <a href="https://chat.whatsapp.com/Hr4LlyNHLiuETGzmdVgpsR?fbclid=IwAR0ahsmXkoHIPgxyzBmG6kf7E9HNeVNtLVAI6MtGsxwQz4Ug7-mWDgzThgU">Groups on WhatsApp</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/humankindglobal">Facebook</a> such as HumanKind Global are full of people searching for blood plasma and oxygen to help COVID-19 patients, The Verge reported.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/humankindglobal"></a>Hospitals in the country are struggling to cope with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-to-help-india-with-covid-19-crisis-through-vaccine-production-supplies-2021-4">shortages of beds and oxygen supplies</a> - some say they only have a few hours' of oxygen supply left. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-indias-crematoriums-have-started-to-melt-so-many-bodies-2021-4#in-the-indian-state-of-gujarat-gas-and-firewood-furnaces-at-crematoriums-have-been-running-so-long-without-a-break-that-metal-parts-have-begun-to-melt-15">Crematoriums are also starting to melt</a> from operating for so long.Prashant Kanojia, member of the Rashtriya Lok Dal party in India and a former journalist, on Sunday <a href="https://twitter.com/PJkanojia/status/1385751693627838465">tweeted with the hashtag #CovidSOS</a> that a hospital in Meerut, north India, needed urgent oxygen supplies.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-modi-india-failed-in-critical-hour-of-need-2021-4">Hospitals in India are turning patients away and COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing. But Prime Minister Modi is on the campaign trail and ignoring the crisis.</a>In response to a <a href="https://twitter.com/bainjal/status/1383048960365850632">thread by journalist Swati Chaturvedi</a> to amplify people's requests for help, <a href="https://twitter.com/abmoitra/status/1383096513417592834">one Twitter user </a>said her relative was a critical cancer patient who couldn't be transferred to ICU because there were no beds available.Another <a href="https://twitter.com/ankitkaul/status/1383066917624111106">Twitter user replied to the thread</a>, saying that their friend's father was "extremely critical" and needed a ventilator urgently in the National Capital Region of India.Vinay Srivastava, an Indian journalist who had COVID-19, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-india-journalist-live-tweeted-oxygen-levels-before-died-2021-4">tweeted on April 16 that his oxygen levels</a> had dropped and that he needed medical help. He was denied healthcare because he didn't have the right paperwork, local media reported. He died the day after his Twitter plea.Hemant Rajaura, a <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="health">health</keyword> reporter for Hindustan Newspaper, <a href="https://twitter.com/hemantrajora_/status/1386375534402179079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1386375534402179079%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fhemantrajora_2Fstatus2F1386375534402179079widget%3DTweetweet">tweeted</a> on Sunday that the oxygen supply in Irene Hospital in New Delhi had dropped, endangering patients. The day before, he <a href="https://twitter.com/hemantrajora_/status/1386210932431355909">tweeted</a> that Delhi needed 700 tons of oxygen to cope with demand, but that only 330 tons was reaching the city.The US on Sunday said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-to-help-india-with-covid-19-crisis-through-vaccine-production-supplies-2021-4">it would provide supplies</a> for testing, drugs, personal protective equipment, ventilators, and vaccines to help India fight its current coronavirus wave. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/?sref=Hhue1scO">Less than 2%</a> of India's population is fully vaccinated.

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<ul><li> The availability of beds in a hospital has become a scarcity, while the demand for oxygen cylinders has shot up as India battles the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.</li><li>For people, who are COVID-19 positive and are in home isolation, the Indian government has announced a medically approved technique of ‘<keyword id="9066740" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="proning" source="Orion">proning</keyword>’ to help increase your <keyword id="2242156" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="oxygen-levels" source="Orion">oxygen levels</keyword>.</li><li>Proning will help in increasing oxygen levels at home.</li></ul>(Disclaimer: This should not be considered medical advice. Please check with your doctor on medical procedures.) India continues to battle a severe second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has also resulted in hospitals being overburdened. The availability of beds in hospitals has become a scarcity, while the demand for oxygen cylinders has shot up, as more and more people see their oxygen levels dipping. Hospitals are advised for people whose oxygen levels are dropping beyond 92% saturation level. For people, who are COVID-19 positive and are in home isolation, the Indian government has announced a medically approved technique of ‘proning’ to help increase your oxygen levels and keep them in the safe zone (above 94%). <div type="ExtQuote" text="Proning is the process of turning a patient with precise, safe motions, from their back onto their abdomen (stomach), so the individual is lying face down." auname="Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India"></div> For patients who are isolated at home, it is important to stay in a well-ventilated room and <keyword id="11156501" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="practice-proning" source="Orion">practice proning</keyword> when there is a mild problem in breathing and oxygen levels have dropped below 94, but not beyond 90-92. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Here’s how you can practice proning, as advised by the Indian health ministry" comment="subhead" text="Here’s how you can practice proning, as advised by the Indian health ministry">Here’s how you can practice proning, as advised by the Indian health ministry</cmsannotation> Proning with pillows – Lie down on the bed and place one pillow below the neck, one or two more under the chest through upper thighs and two pillows below the shins. <div type="image" title="proning1" msid="82251717" hostid="261"></div> You can also try proning by following the below mentioned steps for 30 minutes each – Sleep on your belly – Lay down on your left side – Lay down on the right side – Sleep on your belly – Sit up with a pillow on your back <div type="image" title="proning" msid="82251721" hostid="261"></div> However, avoid proning immediately after meals and ensure that you aren’t uncomfortable in any given position. “Keep a track of any pressure sores or injuries, especially, around bony prominences,” as mentioned in the ministry bulletin. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/how-to/how-to-choose-the-right-pulse-oximeter/articleshow/82228819.cms">Pulse oximeter buying guide - here's how to choose the right oximeter for home</a>

How to increase blood oxygen levels at home for covid patient as advised by the Indian health ministry

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Desperate Indians are turning to a black market in <keyword id="6355647" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oxygen">oxygen</keyword> as stocks dwindle amid a <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> surge. </li><li>Oxygen shortages have taken hold in several countries, with rampant price-gouging.</li><li>Reports from around the world detail cylinders being sold for ten times their normal price.</li></ul><keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> is having to deal with a black market for oxygen amidst a record-breaking COVID-19 surge that has exhausted supplies in many hospitals. It is a trend that has been seen in many countries around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Six hospitals in India said Thursday that hey had run out of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-hospitals-run-out-of-oxygen-amid-covid-19-surge-2021-4">medical oxygen</a>, one of the most important treatments for those struggling with COVID-19 symptoms.Demand for oxygen is likely to shoot up in coming days in twelve states in India as the country continues to report hundreds of thousands of new cases each day, <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-which-states-are-worst-hit-why-is-oxygen-transportation-difficult-7277038/">the Indian Express reported</a>.<a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/oxygen-cylinders-remdesivir-being-sold-on-black-market/articleshow/82185040.cms">The Times of India reported Thursday</a> that the average cost of an oxygen cylinder has "skyrocketed", to 20,000 to 25,000 rupees, about $250-330.One man in India told AFP that he paid 45,000 rupees, about $600, for a cylinder of oxygen. That is about nine times its normal price, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210422-india-s-covid-19-shortages-spur-black-market-for-drugs-oxygen">AFP reported on Thursday</a>.One advertisement circulated on social media offering a cylinder for 30,000 rupees, about $400. Another offered it for 35,000, about $460, <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/making-hay-in-the-black-market-remdesivir-sold-at-rs-40000-oxygen-cylinder-at-rs-35000/articleshow/82187715.cms">the Times of India reported</a>.<a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD?name_desc=false">According to World Bank data</a>, the Gross National Income per capita in India is $2,120 per year.India is not alone in facing this issue. 25 countries around the world are reporting a surge in demand for oxygen, mostly in Africa, <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/25-02-2021-covid-19-oxygen-emergency-impacting-more-than-half-a-million-people-in-low--and-middle-income-countries-every-day-as-demand-surges">the World Health Organization (WHO) said</a>. More than half a million COVID-19 patients need oxygen treatment every day, <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/25-02-2021-covid-19-oxygen-emergency-impacting-more-than-half-a-million-people-in-low--and-middle-income-countries-every-day-as-demand-surges">per WHO estimates</a>. That means 1.1 million oxygen cylinders every day. Brazil, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/americas/mexico-covid-oxygen-shortage.html">Mexico</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/07/peru-jungle-iquitos-coronavirus-covid-19">Peru</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/world/middleeast/egypt-hospital-oxygen-covid.html">Egypt</a>, Nigeria and other countries all reported shortages at the height of COVID-19 surges, and many had to deal with black markets praying on the vulnerable.In Peru last year, the price of a cylinder of oxygen was pushed well over $1,000, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/07/peru-jungle-iquitos-coronavirus-covid-19">The Guardian reported</a>.One woman reported paying nearly $1,300 for a cylinder, a markup of 1,000%, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/peru-coronavirus-oxygen-tank-price-gouging/2020/06/17/3e0f5392-b0bc-11ea-8f56-63f38c990077_story.html">The Washington Post said on June 18, 2020</a>. In Mexico too a black market thrived amid a nationwide shortage, with demand up sevenfold, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/americas/mexico-covid-oxygen-shortage.html?referringSource=articleShare">The New York Times reported</a>. Trucks transporting oxygen were held up at gunpoint, according to local reports, and prices for oxygen tripled on the black market, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/americas/mexico-covid-oxygen-shortage.html?referringSource=articleShare">The Times reported on February 9</a>. At the height of the shortage crisis in Brazil's Manaus region in January, the price of a 50-liter oxygen container went up 6.5 times, to almost $1,200, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210319-covid-leaves-brazilian-amazon-city-struggling-to-breathe">France 24 reported</a>.Oxygen shipments were guarded by police. Some sellers were caught painting fire hydrants green to pass them off as containers, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210319-covid-leaves-brazilian-amazon-city-struggling-to-breathe">France 24 reported on March 19</a>. Black markets aren't the only reason for a price hike. Transportation and infrastructure also contribute to the increase. Oxygen is often produced by factories, and transported by cooled tankers over long distances. In richer countries, the oxygen is taken in liquid form by cooled tankers to the hospitals. This means the oxygen, which takes less space in liquid form, is cheaper to transport.But most hospitals in poorer countries around the world don't have this sort of infrastructure. They have to rely on the transport of heavy gas metal cylinders over long distances to reach the hospital. That incurs logistical and transport costs, passed on to the patient, <a href="https://elemental.medium.com/theres-a-global-shortage-of-medical-oxygen-covid-19-is-making-it-worse-14553be5da09">according to a Medium post by Craig Spencer</a>, a medical professor in New York and a board member of Doctors Without Borders.Small rural hospitals in Kenya and Nigeria, pay 5 to 10 times more for a cylinder of oxygen than a London hospital does, <a href="https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020-08-09/lack-of-oxygen-leaves-covid-19-patients-in-africa-gasping-for-air">according to an investigation from the UK's Bureau of Investigative Journalism</a>. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/americas/mexico-covid-oxygen-shortage.html?referringSource=articleShare">According to The Times</a>, at the height of the oxygen shortage in Mexico, a cylinder of oxygen cost more than $800, up to 10 times the cost paid by a US hospital. Most states in India have redirected their oxygen production, which is used for instance in the iron, steel and glass industry, towards meeting the oxygen need, <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-which-states-are-worst-hit-why-is-oxygen-transportation-difficult-7277038/">the Indian Express reported</a>. But here, again, the problem is transport, and India is huge. Oxygen production is mostly done in eastern India, whereas the demand for oxygen is higher in the western part of India and other parts, <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/view-how-india-could-pump-oxygen-into-the-oxygen-supply-chain/articleshow/82200183.cms">The Economic Times has reported</a>. Because of the increased logistics and transport, the cost of refilling a cylinder in India has been hiked fivefold, from about $1-5 to $6 to $26, <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-which-states-are-worst-hit-why-is-oxygen-transportation-difficult-7277038/">The Indian Express reported</a>.India's police has been cracking down on the black market for oxygen. The government of the Uttar Pradesh state of India has said it would invoke the National Security Act and Gangster Act to combat black marketing of oxygen, <a href="https://twitter.com/airnewsalerts/status/1385415125012787207?s=20">All India Radio News said in a tweet on Thursday</a>. India plans to import 50,000 metric tonnes of medical oxygen to deal with the crisis, <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-which-states-are-worst-hit-why-is-oxygen-transportation-difficult-7277038/">the Indian Express reported</a>. It also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-oxygen-express-trains-hospital-shortages-2021-4">set up an "Oxygen Express" train to get supplies to hard-hit states</a>.Some experts blame the government for not putting the infrastructure in place to avoid this situation in the first place. "We were aware that the second wave was coming but we didn't plan to avoid unfortunate incidences like shortages of drugs, beds and oxygen," <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56757405">epidemiologist Dr Lalit Kant told the BBC</a>.

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