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‘Hours away from abandoning patients’ | Echo – Echo
THE number of Covid patients in Essex hospital beds jumped by 300 in just a matter of hours, new figures have shown.
THE number of Covid patients in Essex hospital beds jumped by 300 in just a matter of hours, new figures have shown.
There were 837 people in beds in Essex hospitals on December 28 but the following day it rose to 1,107.
The Essex County Council numbers also show a huge spike in people aged 20 to 49-year-old fighting the virus, while the number people aged over 70 with Covid is significantly lower – a positive sign as it is cases in this age group which are more likely to end up as hospitalisations.
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