Good news on Boris Johnson
He’s been moved out of intensive care:
“The Prime Minister has been moved this evening from intensive care back to the ward, where he will receive close monitoring during the early phase of his recovery,” a spokesman said on Thursday. “He is in extremely good spirits.”
I bet he is.
He has been sitting up in bed but could still be out of action for at least a month, according to reports.
For someone like Johnson, backing off from work will be hard. But he needs to be careful not to push himself.
I am glad he is recovering. He is nowhere near as conservative as Donald Trump, but he is capable of changing the frame of the national conversation. And, he’s more conservative than the alternatives.
That is really good news, Maybe Britain can be great again, every journey starts with one step.
Admit I was getting a little worried about him as it seemed little information was coming out but maybe in the UK his condition was being updated more often just not making it over here.
Good news for him, his family, and for the UK!
I wonder if he got Hydroxychloroquine/Z-pack? Magic 8 ball says “It is certain.”
Let’s hope the next stop is his residence. Patients have been known to relapse.
But he needs to be careful not to push himself.
Will enforced rest help or hinder his recovery? For most of us, help. He’s not like most of us, however.
I am interested to know what medication he was on, and whether it was something brought over by the team sent by Trump
In the London Times: “No 10 has turned down President Trump’s offer of an experimental coronavirus treatment for Boris Johnson”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-10-refuses-donald-trumps-offer-of-help-for-boris-johnson-9dd2hrk82
Ann:
That tells us very little. There are a ton of experimental treatments, including survivor plasma and antivirals. The UK has it’s own hydroxychloroquine, etc. Trump wouldn’t need to send it over. It’s a very common drug.
In the Daily Mail, “Which experimental drugs could Prime Minister Boris Johnson be given in intensive care?”:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8196477/Which-experimental-drugs-Prime-Minister-Boris-Johnson-given-intensive-care.html
Ann:
That’s my point. We don’t know what drugs Johnson got at the hands of his own doctors, and we don’t know what treatment help Trump offered.
Or if he was given any of the ‘experimental’ drugs. Admittedly I didn’t follow his condition real close but maybe the move to ICU was really precautionary. Like all things I’m sure the people who survive this from ICU fall on a spectrum of severity.
Note, Ann has offered two posts which are rejoinders to nothing anyone actually said. Correct-the-Record is not sending Neo their best.
I was actually responding to Edward who said we’d sent a team over to the UK.
Boris Johnson going to the ICU almost did me in, and I’m not even British, hope he’ll get well soon.
And I want to know what Fredo is taking!
Heh, Molly Brown. I saw a tweet, unverified, of course, from someone who sounded like a qualified pulmonary radiologist saying Fredo’s chest X-ray looked totally normal. Who knows? I hope he recovers completely.
I was actually responding to Edward who said we’d sent a team over to the UK.
Responding twice. To his curiosity as to whether his medication regime included something suggested by Trump’s confidential experts. Which it certainly could have w/o regard to whether Johnson’s doctors paid any mind to them.
I too have been intensely curious about BJ’s treatment, but who knows if it will ever leak. It’s possible he got better with nothing more exotic than a few days of oxygen. It’s possible he didn’t want to be accused of getting better care than the average citizen.
I believe they said he never developed pneumonia, which is an awfully good sign.
This news is a huge relief.
Prayer changes things. Just saying.
Boris is both an individual body, and the Head of the British Body Politic.
https://unherd.com/2020/04/why-we-need-boris-to-get-better/?=frlh&fbclid=IwAR1ouP6AzaT_ZKSqZra7FaErbpnM-S1CZUuseVoLQk8u41-Stug6U5fKJgo
I wish him well.
We recently saw the Slovak sub-titled movie version Macbeth, and couldn’t understand most of the words most of the time – but at least the translation made sense. Sick leaders have a negative influence on their countries.
I wish Boris well; and am very curious as to the treatments chosen for him by his doctors. Don’t yet know what they are, tho.
Ann is just very concerned. She’s concerned and wants us to know how concerned she is and wants us to be concerned too. It’s really quite concerning.
My husband has a colleague who was very sick. Because of his connections to top grade doctors and virologists,he was not intubated. I don’t know what other treatments he may have received, but he was out of the hospital in a few days without ever getting near a ventilator. I think that people at the top seem to escape the standardized recommendations that seem to be responsible for lots of deaths.
I suspect this is true of Johnson. Thank heavens.
expat,
Glad to read your husband’s colleague is on the mend!
All the medical professionals I know advise to avoid hospitals at all costs, unless they are a last resort. Lots of great people doing great things in them, but also very good odds on getting a nasty infection. Intubation sounds awful!
Push himself… what if someone else pushes him out a window?
Ymarsakar,
Speaking of pushing folks out of windows, Tom Grey lives in the epicenter of defenestration. It has a long, storied history of being the implement of choice in Czech political assassinations.