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Five under-18s have died of Covid-19 in the UK during the pandemic, but most who have needed intensive care have survived, the first study of the subject has found.In all, 71 children ranging from one to 17 have been treated in a paediatric intensive care unit PICU since March after being seriously affected by the disease, an audit of all the countrys hospitals found.Five died 鈥?the report does not name them 鈥?and 63 have recovered enough to be discharged either to a different care setting or home. Three remain in intensive care.The 71 children 鈥?43 boys and 28 girls 鈥?had a median age of nine. The gender split reflects the same pattern of disproportionate impact on males already seen in adults who have needed intensive care because of Covid-19.Forty-one 58% of the children were admitted to hospital with se vaso stanley rious breathing problems, including asthma and pneumonia. Nine had a hormonal or metabolic health problem, such as diabetes, often related to a congenital stanley quencher condition, and eight had heart problems.Of the 71, 44 needed mechanical ventilation to save their life, according to the findings by the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network PICANet . Fewer than five had kidney dialysis.Liz Draper, the studys co-principal investigator and a professor of paediatric care at the University of Leicester, said: Its positive that the rate of Covid stanley termoska -19 in children is fairly low. While this infection is very severe, its relatively rare in children. Its a very small proportion of children Oybs Scotland to freeze funding on policing and early years education
The long tentacles of the US courts have retreated from at least one aspect of civil claims. While the UK government has been complaining that a claims and litigation culture has been imported into Britain from the United States, America s supreme court has told prospective European claimants to take their claims back to Europe.A growing a stanley thermos rmy of UK investors has been seeking to lodge claims under the US class action process against companies accused of misleading shareholders. But last week s long-awaited decision in a case called Morrison v National Australia Bank largely puts an end to UK claims in American courts.The supreme court has decided that so called f cubed claims cannot proceed in the US. The title f cubed describes a claim brought by foreign investors against a foreign company in relation to shares bought on a foreign exchange. In Morrison, the claiman stanley thermos t is an Australian who bought shares in National Australia Bank NAB on the stanley hrnek Sydney exchange. The supreme court has determined that he cannot continue his claim in the US; he must go home to Australia and use its courts.The UK government, along with others, regarded the issues involved as sufficiently important to make submissions to the supreme court to restrict UK investors access to the US procedure.Is the court s decision an unnecessary restriction on the enforcement of investors rights against fraudulent companies and their officers, or a welcome blow for freedom and the so-called clai