Posted on 04/08/2020 6:00:05 AM PDT by abb
Boris Johnson is "responding to treatment" for coronavirus as he spends his third day in hospital.
The prime minister was being kept in St Thomas' Hospital in London "for close monitoring" and remained clinically stable, Downing Street said.
Downing Street said he was not working but could contact those he needed to.
Downing Street said Mr Johnson was in "good spirits" as he continued to receive standard oxygen treatment. He was breathing without any assistance, such as mechanical ventilation or non-invasive respiratory support.
The prime minister was admitted to St Thomas' on Sunday, on the advice of his doctor, after continuing to display symptoms of a cough and high temperature 10 days after testing positive for the virus.
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Yep. Go, Boris!
Lesson learned, I hope.
Sociopolitical posturing in defiance of a disease is stupid.
COVID-19 patients look stable, until they’re not, things can go South in a big hurry, and without warning. Just had another one here crash and burn abruptly.
They should be using the anti-malaria medicine; it works.
But (apparently) for idiotic bureaucratic reasons, they’re not.
Praise be to God!
Treatment = Trump drug?
yes. When they go south it’s fast. I’ve see. people go from looking OK ish to intubated in less than an hour. Usually it’s within the first 24 hours or so of hospitalization though. That he is stable on his 3rd day is encouraging. I pray Boris does well.
Responding to treatment = responding to HCQ
I’m starting to see a pattern in reporting not unlike those reports you read about politicians who commit crimes. There are ‘R’s all over reports of crimes committed by republican politicans, but you have to see the correction the next day noting the perp was a Democrat.
Anyone prominent that recovers is on HCQ. You can believe that.
I think (or hope) that is what happened when they decided to hospitalize him. Lord, I HOPE he’s on the mend! He is trying to get Britain’s sovereignty back. Not easy in a Socialist country.
How someone is being managed is between the patient, the doctor, and the nursing team, otherwise it is NOMB, or yours
... When they go south it’s fast. I’ve see.
Stay safe, stay well, and if you are sick, stay home
33 years serving in same hospital here...
you too! just got home from my shift at 2AM. i hate to shower at that hour cause then I’m AWAKE. oh well. 35 years experience but not all at the same place. Have a blessed day
... Have a blessed day
Every day is a good day when you remember Who Made the day
The NHS rushed him into the ICU because they feared the political fallout of losing a sitting PM.
If he had been Joe Yobber from Brixton it never would have happened.
Would seem to back up reports posted here about the virus robbing the blood of ability to carry oxygen to the body and that ventilators aren't a solution.
What I want to know is what the 3 doctors Trump sent to England to help take of him are giving him. Trump said earlier this week it was a “complex treatment”... sounded like something not yet available to the general public.
What I thought it could be, and I saw a ER MD also tweeting the same last night, is Gilead’s Remdesivir, which I don’t think is readily available outside the USA. I’ve heard about it being used when HCQ/Zpack isn’t working, and this drug has been effective in critical cov19 cases. It’s all ‘anecdotal’ but patients have been discharged after its use.
The PM’s office said yesterday that various offers of help from abroad had been politely declined.
That’s a fair question... particularly in a country with a nationalized health service.
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