What an evening for everyone. My heart goes out to anyone suffering in these extraordinary times.

Logging off for the night. 

Good night and hope there is better news tomorrow.

Nick

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If he is not mechanically ventilated by Thursday he is likely to pull through.

If he is ventilated much sooner than Thursday it looks bleak.

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BBC - Coronavirus: Boris Johnson taken to intensive care
see:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52192604 

Roger

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This is what I feared when we were told he still had symptoms on Friday. It does appear that the disease really takes hold if it goes on for more than a week.

OMG

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Have just seen that on Facebook. Can't believe it to be honest.

Get better soon Prime Minister!

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This is awful news. The government can trot out comforting words like 'precautionary' etc but this is very serious and grave news. I hope he pulls through but I honestly fear the worst now 😥

The Prime Minister deteriation so rapidly is so so worrying.

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I'm trying to psychologically prepare myself so it isn't such a shock if it does happen.
The PM though, it would be truly awful.

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Yes that’s definitely not a good development. Hopefully he will pull through but it is very worrying.

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It has been abundently clear for a couple of months now that the only humane way to deal with this awful plague, is to lockdown the national borders, stop all flights from infected regions,engage in screening of all arrivals at ports of entry, put all arrivals in quarantine, contact trace all associates of those with the virus and to test on a wide scale.

Nothing works without first shutting the borders - I have been bloody consistent with that message from the outset. If the borders are closed, you can relax internally.

Naturally, trade still continues, but that does not entail mass movement of people.

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'if' Boris doesn't make this ( AND I really hope he does ) then I cant see any relaxation coming soon , this will hit home to ALL that we need social distancing for some time 

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I wonder if they'll give Boris that remdesivir drug they were talking about last week?

Should he pull through this, and I sincerely hope he does, I wonder how his views on the virus will change given his experience of how bad it really can get?

Yes very true , his outlook could change dramatically 

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Terrible and very worrying news about Boris,it does not look good at all and im sure every decent person regardless of political persuasion hopes he pulls through. Everyone needs to take note of how serious this virus is.

I look forward to reading the words, "damascene conversion" in his memoirs when he writes them.

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Really sad to hear that Boris is in intensive care. Surely the prognosis doesn't look good for him. Either way I will keep my fingers crossed and Hope's up for him.

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Not if it hasn't been cleared for use.

I have seen, though, Doctors in America using untested drugs on themselves (most notably HCQ).

 

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Mason Mills says Boris is not currently on a ventilator.

I've found this guy to be one of the most reliable no10 insiders.

 

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My suspicion is that he is deterioating very rapidly and, although not currently on invasive ventilation, is expected to be in the coming hours and days.

 

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Yes, you right I think Q. It sounds like things have moved rapidly. You have said, that this can happen quickly if you don’t get better by day 10.

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I have never been one to go about to anyone saying "I told you so". However, given how unwell the PM is with Covid-19 at the moment and the fact that the Health Secretary, Chief Medical Advisor and the PM's own advisor not to mention Prince Charles have all been affected by the disease in the past couple of weeks, I wouldn't be surprised if some members of the government are now wishing deep down that they had taken some of the steps that you suggest, Richard.

I think I read a few weeks back that the Canadian PM had tested positive for the virus, but if so he seems to have pulled through as far as I can gather.

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Our PM lies at death's door.
Over 5,000 of our countrymen dead.
This 'mess' all created by China.
Heard anything from them? Looked after themselves while the world buries and cremates its dead, tens of millions of jobs lost, economies lost for years, and they are buying up shares at a knock down price. They are opening up for business again and will mop up everything.

I had a dream last night about WW3 because the world revolted against China (and North Korea) who never put any of the wrongs right.
I am feeling very angry at the moment how that country has put the world in this position.

Boris is a massive character in Politics. Long may this continue. Fingers and toes crossed he pulls through.

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That, at least, is some comfort. 

I'm surprised by some of the comments because I don't think he's under any illusion about how lethal this can be, as he has seen the numbers and the government policy changed as a result.

Hopefully it will be a wake up call for some of the idiots still thinking it's just a virus but I'm afraid there'll still be a minority looking to score petty political points over his misfortune, whatever the outcome.

 

Fingers (and everything else) crossed that he responds to the treatment. But i think it must be clear now that he is in no position to lead the government and won't be for some time.

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