Ten times more people in hospital with flu than this time last year, NHS England data shows
Flu season is here and the warning about crippling winter pressure on the NHS is starting to come true.
Already hundreds of NHS beds in England were taken up by patients with flu every day over the last week, according to the latest data. An average of 344 patients a day with flu were in hospital last week. That's more than ten times the number seen at the beginning of December last year. November is when RSV cases spike. It is a common winter virus but social distancing during the pandemic means it has not circulated widely over the past two years. That also means young children have not been exposed to these winter respiratory viruses before.Paediatricians are really worried about a shortage of intensive care beds for very sick children.
"The situation for children is awful but no one seems to be mentioning it. Whereas for adults it is always made clear how awful it is. It is probably as bad if not worse for children."
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