内容摘要：Research has consistently shown that younger adults are the group most likely to use social media to make decisions about their personal health, and the most vulnerable to misinformation.

Research has consistently shown that younger adults are the group most likely to use social media to make decisions about their personal health, and the most vulnerable to misinformation.

“You cannot see what we’ve seen, hear what we’ve heard, and do what we’ve had to do and be untouched by it,” she said.“You cannot and be human. And we are very much human.”

Health services in all four UK nations started the pandemic with the number of beds in ICU and staffing levels well below average compared to other rich countries.Five years on and there are still almost 130,000 job vacancies in the NHS across the UK. Sickness rates among the 1.5 million NHS employees in England are running well above pre-pandemic levels, with days lost to stress, anxiety and mental illness rising from 371,000 in May 2019 to 562,000 in May 2024.All this comes as the health service struggles to recover from Covid with waiting lists for surgery and other planned treatments still hovering near record levels.

“We coped, but only just,” said Prof Summers and Dr Suntharalingam in their evidence to the inquiry.“We would have failed if the pandemic had doubled for even one more week, or if a higher proportion of the NHS workforce had fallen sick.

“It is crucial to understand how very close we came to a catastrophic failure of the healthcare system.”

With the inquiry ongoing none of the agencies are currently commenting.He added that the damage occurred either on Friday night or the early hours of Saturday morning.

"In all the years these events have taken place, this is the first time such deliberate vandalism has occurred," he said.Anyone with relevant information about the vandalism has been urged to contact police.

Sixty eight dolphin sculptures will eventually be placed around the island, which people will be able to track down via an app.The founder of a charity for vulnerable people has said she is "very cross" that its van containing "a few hundreds pounds worth" of gardening tools was stolen.