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“The candidates were able to control the relationship with legacy media, perhaps more than in previous cycles, by either going around them or controlling the drip of when they would give them interviews,” said Joshua Darr, senior researcher at Syracuse University’s Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship.

The news cycle delivers a steady drip of election information every hour, and it can be exhausting given that the U.S. campaign season has virtually encompassed the last two years, but Cytowic believes that all of this is manageable.

Intensive care consultant at Salisbury District Hospital, Dr Stephen Cockroft, said he was alerted to Yulia Skripal's sudden consciousness by a nurse and had to "clutch" Ms Skripal's hands to stop her tearing out a drip when she woke from a coma.

“I do 70 burns a year, easy; this year I’ve done 75 since January, and had more than 250 landowners with a drip torch in their hand.”

Costa took their advice and went to a hospital, where he received an intravenous drip to replenish his fluids.