Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper is finally home after spending more than a year in intensive care following a battle with coronavirus. The TV presenter, 53, has had the family home adapted so that Derek, also 53, could come back and receive round-the-clock care at their London property. Former lobbyist Derek has now been taken … Read more
Pregnant women who catch Covid are more than twice as likely to end up in intensive care as non-pregnant women, a study has found. University of Birmingham researchers also found mothers-to-be with Covid were nearly three times more likely to experience a stillbirth, but they were slightly less likely to die with coronavirus than women … Read more
Fewer than 10 Covid-19 patients aged over 80 are being sent to intensive care units each day thanks to the rollout of Britain’s vaccine programme, Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed last night. At a Downing Street press conference, Mr Hancock hailed ‘exciting’ data showing that just one shot of either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer jab … Read more
Paul Gascoigne ‘is having intensive Italian lessons’ as he prepares to star in their version of I’m A Celebrity alongside a bevy of beauties By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 00:59 GMT, 26 February 2021 | Updated: 00:59 GMT, 26 February 2021 Paul Gascoigne is reportedly studying Italian ahead of his stint on their version … Read more
MARCH 2020 Kate revealed she and Prince Charles had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March 11 – Charles was diagnosed with coronavirus in mid-March. She said: ‘Around the 29/30 March, I came home came in and said [to Derek] ‘god you look ill.’ ‘He said he had a headache, numbness in his right hand, … Read more
A father-of-two has survived coronavirus after being given the ‘life-saving’ arthritis drug tocilizumab. Carl Leedham was put into intensive care at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and told he was dying on Thursday, February 11. But just two days later the 58-year-old was discharged from hospital and is now home with his wife and two daughters. His … Read more
Pressure on NHS intensive care has started to ease for the first time since the second wave of coronavirus took off and Test and Trace data shows cases of the disease are down 40 per cent in a fortnight. The number of hospital patients in general beds with Covid-19 has also dropped to its lowest level … Read more
One in eight NHS trusts in England did not have a single spare intensive care bed last week, official figures show as hospitals continued to grapple with the winter wave of critically ill coronavirus patients. NHS England figures published today reveal 18 out of 140 major trusts had 100 per cent occupancy in their ICUs … Read more
Police have launched a hunt for a maskless Covid denier who tried to take a dying patient from intensive care against doctors’ orders. Toby Hayden-Leigh, 45, from Maidstone, Kent, was joined by a group of people who refused to wear masks inside East Surrey Hospital and then became abusive towards staff on January 21. A … Read more
Top intensive care doctors told NHS staff not to blame people for breaking lockdown rules on Saturday, as the number of people on ventilators with Covid-19 surpassed 4,000 for the first time. Dr Alison Pittard and Dr Daniele Bryden, respectively the dean and vice dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, chided other healthcare … Read more