He's not exactly an old man but it doesn't look like he lives a healthy life, imagine the pressure he must have been under for the past few weeks.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Awful news 
The 50% stats sound bad but it's covering all admissions. It'll be well below that in his age range plus I'd imagine they'll have admitted him on lower risk than others so you'd think he'll be fine.
Still a mind feck. No matter politics man has a child in the way so all the wishe to his recovery.
Still a mind feck. No matter politics man has a child in the way so all the wishe to his recovery.
That's terrible really really hope he pulls through
Any know how many that are put in intensive care make it out the other side?
feck. I know he isn't popular on here but I've always liked Boris. Really hope he pulls through.
Not true.
Like someone said, we first need to know is he's also been put on ventilator.
Isn't his wife pregnant too? Hopefully he makes it through.
Sick of saying it but post a source.
Blimey, what’s the recovery rate of intensive care patients?
Edit - 50% apparently
That's when in a ventilator. ICU is used for many other reasons.
No just the ventilator
Great, so we're putting them in harms way. What are we gonna do when they get sick?
From what I've seen in other countries, the police are wearing masks and gloves
Assuming he is, then what percentage make it out?
Must admit unnerving BBC newscaster keeps pausing....reminds me of the night when Diana had the car crash and BBC were told she'd passed but there was an embargo so newscaster that night keep pausing as he was being told the news in his ear.
Not looking good anyway given the grim way this virus seems to work on its victims.
Not looking good anyway given the grim way this virus seems to work on its victims.
Come on Boris
This could just be them lying again but it's worth posting
Thanks. Coin flip odds would be fecking scary.
Worrying time for his pregnant girlfriend, that said i'm sure he'll be in the best possible care there.
One in the eye for all those people who said everyone else in the world would have to die before they allowed Dominic Raab to be PM.
Coin toss, apparently. But there must be other factors which increase/decrease the chance.
if it ever does happen, youll have people sympathizing for him too, its human nature to forget your opinions on people when they actually might die.
Never really took to Boris but Godspeed he makes it through.
Who's lied about what now?
Sure I read she is symptomatic now too!
Not a good sign.
I cannot stand the guy but putting my political views & differences to one side, I sincerely hope to God that he pulls through.
I cannot stand the guy but putting my political views & differences to one side, I sincerely hope to God that he pulls through.
On the other hand he's basically the person in the country with the highest priority. He'll probably get taken into ICU and cared for way better/more individually than regular people who made up the 50% death rate.
Not all of them do, many countries face the same issues with masks and gloves.
Twitter really is the worst sometimes. If your response is anything other than well wishes then you're not a very nice person.
I am not a huge Boris fan, but I do think he is handling the current situation well, hope he recovers soon to carry on.
I think Anthony Eden was unwell and went on holiday to Jamaica to recover for a while but can’t think of anything else aside from Churchill.
From having worked as a respiratory physio and seen people moving to and from ICU, you don’t take someone to ICU as a precaution. You do it expecting a condition to worsen, fast, in order to have all of the necessary equipment in place ready to go.
what is Remdesivir?
Genuine question... is the story of Boris shaking hands with Coronavirus patients a few weeks ago actually true?
He hasn’t according to latest reports.
Think Blair had a brief stay in a hospital, just remember all the jokes about Prescott being PM for a day and no-one telling him.
Nope. I have desired Tump's death for a long time. Never in any moment I felt the same for Boris. Bolsonaro is probably the only world leader I put on the level of Trump (with the caveat that there are a lot of leaders I don't know, specially in Africa and Asia).
While obviously I hope Boris pulls through, hopefully he now understands how disastrous and idiotic his initial strategy and delayed response to the pandemic were. He wasted precious time and initially was prepared to plow straight on for "herd immunity" despite it being obvious that tens of thousands of people would die. It's very rare for politicians to have to suffer the repercussions of their own actions in the same way normal people do. Hopefully Boris will be one of the lucky ones who make it through, but there will be thousands deaths that might have been avoided with a more competent response.
He said it at one of the first press briefings.
How many minutes, give or take, are you saving by moving someone to an ICU vs being in a regular hospital room?