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A man passes a temporary ‘Nightingale’ field hospital constructed in south London, England, 3 January 2022.Staff shortages force health service providers to enact emergency measures
A critical incident means that the healthcare providers believe they may no longer be able to provide a range of critical services, and the status enables them to call for help from staff and other organisations. University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay and United Lincolnshire Hospitals are among the trusts implementing emergency measures.that many parts of the health service are currently in “a state of crisis”, while community and social care services are at “breaking point”.
“Whether they then drop precipitously, or we see a pattern a bit like we saw with delta back in July of an initial drop and then quite a high plateau, remains to be seen. It’s just too difficult to interpret current mixing trends and what the effect of opening schools again will be.” The protection conferred by booster vaccines against the omicron variant begins to wane within 10 weeks, according to aBased on an analysis of 147,597 delta and 68,489 omicron cases, the agency found that the Oxford/AstraZeneca, Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are less effective against omicron than delta.
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