内容摘要：They were invited to a "free" test shoot at a photographic studio where they were handed glossy brochures and told they had passed their studio test, but would need to buy a portfolio of images for the modelling agencies who were interested in them.

They were invited to a "free" test shoot at a photographic studio where they were handed glossy brochures and told they had passed their studio test, but would need to buy a portfolio of images for the modelling agencies who were interested in them.

found that in January 2021, 6,099 ICU beds were filled across the UK, well above the pre-Covid capacity of 3,848.This huge spike in demand, equivalent to building another 141 entire intensive care units, was being driven by the length of time Covid patients needed treatment.

, normally on a ventilator, compared with just four to seven days for a patient admitted for another reason.As a result, hospitals had to rush to convert operating theatres, side rooms or other wards into makeshift intensive care units. NHS trusts often ended up juggling shortages of equipment, medicines and oxygen.But while it might have been possible to cram in more beds, finding the extra skilled workers to staff them was far more difficult.

Prof Charlotte Summers, who led the intensive care team at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, said: “We can’t just magic up specialist care staff because it takes a good couple of years, at least, for minimum critical care speciality training.”“What we had, we had, and we had to stretch further and further.”

As a result staffing ratios were pushed to the limit in Covid, something she said politicians, the media and the public didn’t fully understand at the time.

Outside of a pandemic, specialist critical care nurses would be responsible for just a single patient. In Covid they were looking after four, five or even six – often all on a ventilator.Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Bannon attacked Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James, calling them "existential threats" to the Trump administration.

James was not involved in Bannon's case, but brought a lawsuit against Trump for civil fraud and won a nearly half-billion dollar judgment against him.Bannon also faced federal charges over the wall campaign after he was indicted by a federal grand jury, but the prosecution came to a halt after Trump pardoned him in the final hours of his first White House term.

Some of his co-conspirators, who did not receive pardons, were ultimately sentenced to prison.The president's pardon authority applies only to federal matters, and charges in the current case were filed by in a New York State court in September 2022.