Sir Patrick Vallance speaks at Downing Street coronavirus press conference

The video discusses the rising number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and its cascading effects on intensive care units and mortality rates. It highlights the delay between infection rates and hospitalizations, and how this impacts healthcare services for other conditions like cardiovascular and cancer care. The importance of controlling infection rates to alleviate pressure on the healthcare system is emphasized.

What impact do COVID patients have on the care for other conditions?

Why is it important to keep the number of infections down?