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While A&Es were overcrowded, operating theatres stood empty and surgeons struggled to find something useful to do.

The PK design has always gotten rave reviews, and having used one for more than three years, I know why. It is simple, efficient and functional – everything you could want in a grill. The two-piece body consists of matching top and bottom the same size, formed of poured aluminum, one of the best materials for conducting heat. It’s heavy duty but very light in weight, won’t rust, and they are so bulletproof many people still cook on original PK models bequeathed to them by parents or grandparents. But most importantly it works great, whether you are searing a steak (I like to fire mine up when my wife and I are splitting a porterhouse), cooking a dozen burgers, or want to smoke a whole chicken.

SoftWheel was founded in 2011 by Gilad Wolf, a farmer who broke his pelvis four years prior and found himself in a wheelchair for three weeks.

In wheelchairs, the system reduces pain for riders and increases their comfort to significantly improve their daily lives. And in cars, Softwheel’s systems enable the fusion of the suspension, e-motor, steering, and brakes into the vehicle’s wheels to provide a significant reduction in volume, weight, and energy consumption of vehicle platforms for EV, hybrid, and autonomous vehicles.

Northampton and the QMC were among 24 hospitals that declared a “black alert” for A&E this winter, meaning they were at full capacity.

Until Hurricane Katrina, hospitals were the main focus of evacuation planning. Now, however, skilled nursing and nursing homes’ needs and potential impacts have emerged.3 Sheltering in place and evacuation both carry risk. While preparing evacuation plans, transportation and decision making remain two issues requiring more work. Although United States nursing homes are required to maintain an evacuation plan, compliance is not always robust.4 Evacuation in assisted living (supportive living) also varies greatly. In an emergency, "implicit in the decision-making process is the ability for the facility to safely shelter residents for a prolonged period of time." (3)

At least a dozen hospitals across the region began the painstaking work of evacuation, methodically emptying floor after floor of patients, the sickest ones first, who were then shuffled into ambulances and taken to sister hospitals in the hope of higher ground.

I hear this phrase literally every single time I drive somewhere with my 2-year-old son – who somehow has the magic ability to spot fire engines and trucks out of traffic like it’s his superhero strength.

Ex-security superintendent RON KNIGHT, 87, has volunteered at an eye injection clinic at West Suffolk Hospital near his home in Bury St Edmunds for ten years.

Rimoin and I take the same flight out of Kinshasa; she will likely be back in a few months. I think about her ties to the Congo as our plane soars over one of the most biodiverse rain forests in the world, on the first of three legs that will put me back within a stone’s throw of the White House in 28 hours. Below my flight path, the sparks of a new Ebola outbreak are flickering, unbeknownst to me or any of the scientists with whom I’d spoken. (It would be discovered in the weeks that followed.)

French company Sanofi Pasteur, one of the suppliers, said demand had not increased significantly in the Hong Kong market. Vaccine supply remained stable, a spokesman said.

Claire Floody is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star’s radio room in Toronto. Follow her on Twitter: @claire_floody