[andymc]

Channel 4 News yesterday were doing a piece about a hospital in Wales, during which they interviewed one of the nurses. She recounted how she'd managed to have the weekend off after New Year's, and came back to find that forty of her Covid patients had died. Taking a four week average timespan from infection to death, that goes back to early December when the daily case rates were around 28000. They've been hovering between 58000-62000 in recent days. I can't imagine how frontline medical staff are coping with this level of grief and trauma.