Winter ‘quad-demic’ crisis ‘feels like the pandemic’ – with hospitals ‘full to bursting and patients collapsing in A&E’

THE dreaded ‘quad-demic’ has finally hit, with four winter bugs overwhelming NHS hospitals all at once, new figures confirm.

Several A&E departments have been forced to declare ‘critical incidents’ with many hospitals “full to bursting” as patients collapse in waiting rooms, staff warn.

There were an average of 5,408 flu patients on wards each day in the week to January 5, new NHS data shows.