Where are we going? Everywhere! (Provided that it is accessible by train, tube or car, does not involve international borders and remains firmly within your local area.) While holiday bans and hotel quarantines have killed off trips of the more exotic kind, one major success of lockdown is lowering what […]
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Ambulances filled with Covid patients forced to queue as exhausted doctors warn hospitals are at ‘breaking point’
Meanwhile, a junior doctor has said his London hospital is “aggressively overstretched” by Covid patients and he expects the situation to worsen. The doctor, who works in general medicine and wished to remain anonymous, said if the volume of Covid patients continues to increase his hospital will need to start rationing […]
‘Breaking Point’: Navajo Hospitals Warn Of Bed, Nurse And Oxygen Supply Shortages
Navajo Nation leaders and medical professionals on Thursday warned the reservation is facing shortages of hospital beds, nurses and oxygen supplies as COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the area and across the country. During a livestreamed briefing on the pandemic, several doctors working at hospitals in the Navajo region […]
Italian hospitals face breaking point in fall virus surge
Doctors carry a coronavirus patient in the Intensive Care Unit at Varese’s Circolo hospital, in Varese, Italy, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. During Italy’s autumn pandemic resurgence, concern is falling less on intensive care wards and more on regular medical wards, as eight regions have seen the needle move alarmingly into […]
These Bollywood Celebrities Took A Stand On Menstrual Health, Breaking The Stigma Around It
In India, discrimination against menstruating women is still rampant. Periods and everything related to it has always been spoken about in hushed tones. Women still get excluded from social events, banned from kitchens, and denied entry into religious places if they’re on their periods. Given the lack of conversation and […]
Breaking Down Their Current Situation
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West are no strangers to media attention, but the latest news cycle around them has taken on a different tone—raising concerns about West and the future of their relationship. These recent events can be traced back to West’s announcement that he was running for […]
A postcard from Melbourne, where residents are breaking the draconian lockdown to buy Big Macs
The Australian state of Victoria has made face masks mandatory whenever people leave their home – getty Six weeks can feel like a long time. Just ask Melbourne. Here, time has taken a Beckettian turn and what had been planned as a six-week Stage 3 lockdown is now feeling more […]