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Children’s wards full of kids with severe coughs and chest infections, top nurse warns
CHILDREN’S wards are full of kids with severe coughs and chest infections, warns England’s top nurse.
Chief nursing officer Dame Ruth May said hospital cases of the RSV winter bug are at a five-year high.
Chief nursing officer, Dame Ruth May, says cases of the RSV are at a five-year high[/caption]
She said paediatric intensive care is 99 per cent full and infections are still rising.
Figures from the UK Health Security Agency show a third of under-fives with suspected respiratory syncytial virus test positive.
Dame Ruth told NHS board members: “We’ve got increasing RSV – we see that every year but we are now at highest for 5 years, with critical care at 99 per cent capacity across England.
“We are not yet at the position of seeing RSV numbers go down but we are working hard on it.”
The chief nurse added that wards are so busy children must be transported between hospitals in some areas.
Dr Camilla Kingdon, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: “Paediatric teams are exceptionally busy this winter as a result of ever rising demand and staffing issues.
“Some of this increased demand is due to RSV and other respiratory infections, alongside other illnesses and issues.”
The UKHSA said hospital admissions for flu are also highest among children under five.
Official figures show youngsters’ intensive care wards were 90 per cent full last week, with general wards at 82 per cent.
This time last year, intensive care was 82 per cent full and general beds 77 per cent.
Dr Conall Watson, from the UK Health Security Agency, said: “RSV is unfortunately common at this time of the year and can be severe for children under two – particularly for babies and those born prematurely.”
More than 1,000 children were refused admission to intensive care last year because of a lack of beds, the Health Service Journal reported.
Freedom of Information data from 19 NHS hospital trusts revealed 1,345 ICU referrals were turned down last year, with experts blaming staff shortages.
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Microsoft found a severe one-click exploit in TikTok’s Android app
A serious vulnerability found by Microsoft in the TikTok Android app could have allowed hackers to hijack millions of accounts. On Wednesday, the company’s 365 Defender Research Team detailed a one-click exploit it informed TikTok of in February. The good news is that the social media company promptly patched the vulnerability before today’s disclosure and Microsoft says it has no evidence of someone using it out in the wild.
“We gave them information about the vulnerability and collaborated to help fix this issue,” Microsoft’s Tanmay Ganacharya told The Verge. “TikTok responded quickly, and we commend the efficient and professional resolution from the security team.”
According to Microsoft, the vulnerability involved an oversight with TikTok’s deep linking functionality. On Android, developers can program their apps to handle certain URLs in specific ways. For instance, when you tap on a Twitter embed in Chrome and the Twitter app automatically opens on your phone as a result, that’s an example of the deep linking feature working as intended.
However, Microsoft found a way to bypass the verification process TikTok had in place to restrict deep links from executing certain actions. They then discovered they could use that vulnerability to access all the primary functions of an account, including the ability to post content and message other TikTok users. The flaw was present in both global versions of TikTok’s Android app. The two releases have more than 1.5 billion downloads between them, meaning the potential impact of someone discovering the vulnerability before it was patched could have been massive.
Microsoft recommends all TikTok users on Android download the latest version of the app as soon as they can. More broadly, you can protect yourself in the future from similar exploits by not clicking on sketchy links. It’s also good practice to avoid sideloading apps as you don’t know how someone could have altered the APK.