Nine people in intensive care with Covid-19 in Chesterfield

As of December 7, Chesterfield Royal Hospital staff are currently caring for 29 Covid-19 patients, of which nine are in intensive care.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital.Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

These are both reductions from 47 and 13 respectively last week.

Chesterfield had peaked at 75 Covid patients in the first wave with 17 in intensive care.

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Nine patients all in the same intensive care unit with the same disease is extremely unusual even in a larger city hospital, health officials say.

The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals is a key piece of information being tracked to decide which tier of restrictions we are placed in.

At the current level, despite falling community infection rates, it may be difficult to argue for Derbyshire to be dropped from Tier 3 to Tier 2.

Overall, there are currently more than 250 Covid-19 patients in Burton, Chesterfield and Derby’s hospitals, slightly down from 262 last week.

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Gavin Boyle, chief executive of the Derby and Burton hospitals trust, said late last month that some of the organisation’s communities may be in Tier 3 into the New Year.

Both the Derby and Burton Trust and Chesterfield are among the first 50 hospitals to begin rolling out the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine this week.

Patients aged 80 and above who are already attending hospital as an outpatient and those who are being discharged home after a hospital stay will be among the first to receive the vaccine, as well as care home workers and NHS workers who are considered to be of higher risk.