****Boris Johnson In ICU****

[DemocratSinceBirth]

PER CNN

I'm obviously not a partisan of his but I hope and pray he gets well.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

1. I wonder....

if he is taking the Corona virus seriously now ??

Take care, get well soon

[samnsara]

3. donnie should send him some fish tank cleaner

[Rorey]

10. I'll pay for the postage

[samnsara]

2. ohhhh shit.....

[RANDYWILDMAN]

7. at least he has national health care

Wish we had it here, maybe this event will allow it to take hold

[FirstLight]

4. wow...

just wow

[cwydro]

5. Probably means he's on a ventilator now.

Just a guess.

[Rorey]

13. Probably ripped away from someone else

He should decline it, in the name of "herd immunity"......

[cwydro]

18. Gah, no kidding.

Hopefully not.

[boston bean]

6. I do hope he recovers.

I wish he weren’t prime minister of the UK.

[still_one]

20. Well said

[happybird]

31. +1

[LiberalLoner]

39. +1

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Look on the bright side

He'll have herd immunity if he pulls through. Bet he never figured he'd be part of the herd, however.

[underpants]

37. Do we KNOW that there's immunity?

I hear it slip in here and there but I haven't heard anything definite. Maybe I missed it.

[madaboutharry]

9. ICU seems to mean the patient is on a ventilator.

I suppose we will be finding out more soon about Mr. Johnson's condition.

I also believe that I heard, on either CNN or MSNBC, that 10 days in is often a very precarious time in the disease's process when people take turns for the worst.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

28. Not necessarily. First you're monitored closely. If you're going into ARDS

i.e. acute respiratory distress syndrome, they may try positive air pressure on you short of the highly invasive lung tube. A BiPAP or CPAP or APAP machine. The PAP air tube goes to a face mask, or it can even go to a tracheotomy hole.

But if you can make it on just PAP you really want that. You get to stay awake.

Lung intubation is brutal. They put and usually keep you under for it. And even of those who survive being on vents, many have a very hard recovery afterwards.

In short, most covid patients who go to ICUs do wind up on vents. But not all.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Just saw that

Why can't it be Trump instead?

[Rorey]

19. Apparently Satan is immune

That's the only explanation that makes sense.

He continued to shake hands, touch his face, etc. And then let's not forget that he stared at the sun during an eclipse.

Yup, he's Satan. Only explanation.

[Recursion]

12. Dominic. Raab.

God help us

[HipChick]

23. Bad news...Raab is awful..

[cwydro]

26. This.

[Coventina]

14. Lest we forget: Boris Johnson was frequently praised here on DU

because he was an ardent critic of George W. Bush and the Iraq War.


I admit, I was one of those who praised him.

But, once he became a mini-me of Trump, of course, I quickly changed my opinion of him.
I didn't realize his criticism of Bush didn't equal good values about other things.

I just thought DU should be reminded that he wasn't always a bad guy around here.

[Drunken Irishman]

21. He also was praised in 2012 while the mayor of London for his comments on Romney.

He went off the deep end with Brexit, tho.

[LisaM]

38. He was always a Conservative

People might have aligned with him on a couple of issues, but I really don't recall much praise for him.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

41. I can tolerate true conservatives. What I can't tolerate is conservative racist bigots

Boris seems to fall in the former category, Trump into the latter.

[milestogo]

15. This is really bad news.

I hope he pulls through.

[bullwinkle428]

16. NBC just reported his fiancee, who is 6 months pregnant, also tested positive.

[wryter2000]

33. Oh damn

I hope she and the baby will be okay.

[dawg]

17. I'm going to point out that Boris changed his tune *before* it affected him personally ...

and while I'm not overly fond of his politics, I do wish him a safe and speedy recovery.

[Kerrycrat]

24. Good to know.

Hopefully his fiancée will also recover.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

22. They're not reporting survival rates for covid victims put on vents, but

...from what few numbers I have seen, my impression is that if an ICU is getting 50% survival at that stage, that's good.

A 1 in 3 chance may be more common.


Maybe the odds of being "successfully extubated" are better than that. I hope so. We'll hear what it's been eventually. Just not right now.

[blitzen]

25. 54% chance of survivial for his age bracket, per CNN...

but maybe higher for him with especially attentive care, per me.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

30. 54% of ICU patients, or 54% of those put on vents?

They're different things. Some covid patients do recover in ICUs without having to be intubated.

[blitzen]

34. on ventilators, for ages 50-64, per Nic Robertson n/t

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

36. Great, thanks. Good to know there are some stats on that.

If you run into a link for those %'s for all the age brackets, please post.

[Kaleva]

27. Hope the best for him and all others hit by this virus.

[DarthDem]

29. :( :(

Very sorry to hear this and I hope he makes a full recovery.

[drray23]

32. I hoipe he recovers

Boris Johnson was on the wrong side of history pushing for Brexit but he is nowhere near Trump level of evil and certainly not stupid.

[Butterflylady]

35. I am a strong believer in what you put out comes back to you tenfold.

So I'll let at that. Hopefully he will learn from this if he survives.

[localroger]

43. Correct. Traditionally it's held to be that it comes back to you threefold.

It's important to get the right R-naught on these things so you can track their progress.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

40. According to the BBC, about an hour ago,

he was moved to intensive care as a precaution, in case he does need to be ventilated.

This is the man who has been willfully destroying the EU and Great Britain the last several years. I find it hard to work up any sympathy for him.

[MFM008]

42. I find myself

Somewhat interested .
Good luck to him.

[LeftishBrit]

44. Wishing him a full and swift recovery

We are all on the same side against the virus.

[DenverJared]

45. The silver lining in this is that the population will now take Covid seriously

There are still a lot of people who think it is nothing and it won't affect them. This news would be eye-opening for them.