Posted on 04/06/2020 3:39:58 PM PDT by NRx
Boris Johnsons move to the intensive care unit (ICU) of St Thomas hospital signals that he has severe Covid-19. Oxygen was available through a mask on the ward he was admitted to on Sunday, but the move to intensive care on Monday strongly suggests that was not enough to help him with the breathing problems caused by the viral pneumonia that the virus triggers.
Most people in intensive care, according to the World Health Organization, require ventilation. Around 15% of people with Covid-19 become seriously ill and need oxygen therapy in hospital. A further 5% are moved into intensive care, so that their breathing can be taken over by mechanical ventilation. Some will also need support for other organs.
Anyone who is put on a ventilator will need to be sedated, although they are not unconscious. A tube must be inserted into the patients windpipe, so that air and oxygen from the machine can be blown into the lungs. That takes the strain off the lungs while they recover.
Johnson, 55, is said to have been admitted to intensive care in case he should need ventilation, but 63% of those admitted to ICUs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are ventilated within the first 24 hours. Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) say that critical care treatment for Covid-19 should be started with a clear plan of how the treatment will address the diagnosis and lead to agreed treatment goals (outcomes).
Ventilation is vital in most severe Covid-19 cases, which is why there has been a huge effort to obtain more machines and even encourage engineering businesses to switch production lines to make them.
In the severest cases, patients are put on an ECMO machine (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), which can support the heart and lungs...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Boris Johnson has no underlying health conditions, per FNC.
He’s 55 with no underlying health conditions.
The Foreign Minister Dominic Raab is standing in for now. If Johnson dies, or is forced to resign it is a bit unclear how a successor would be named on a more permanent basis. The PM is the leader of his/her party in the Commons. Normally there would be a party election while the outgoing PM remained on until a successor was confirmed. My guess is that in a worst case scenario, the Queen would formally ask Mr. Raab (with the consent of the cabinet) to serve as acting PM for the duration of the emergency.
just like the flu, Democrat hoax, gone by April 1 with warmer weather, churches packed for Easter yadayadayada
“My odds just moved again to 30/70.
Any takers let me know”
stay classy, dp
Previous smoker, overweight, and had childhood pneumonia. All underlying health conditions.
Don’t you think its “likely” that if he ended up in the ICU he has a very severe case? If anything they’re understating it.
The Nazi pigs at the leftist Guardian are praying to Satan for Boris Johnson’s death.
I think its wonderful that Pres. Trump got all those drug company employees on a plane to Britain so that they can try out all their experimental treatments on PM Johnson. One of them is bound to work.
I heard on radio just thirty minutes ago that he does not have any other medical issues - but then i don’t believe much these days from MSM.
Thank you.
Im not sure what a flubro is, but from the context, it seems like if you dont agree with Tony Fauci, or CNN fear-mongering, you are a flubro. If you compare Covid-19 to the flu, you are a flubro.
Actually, it seems like a worthwhile comparison - how does it compare to the seasonal flu? Seems like a perfectly reasonable question. I know Im curious. Ive heard President Trump make that comparison - I guess hes a flubro. I guess Im a flubro.
Also, the FReepers calling people flubros seem like total a-holes.
So, all in all, Id rather be a flubro (whatever that is).
Where do I sign up?
This is me and I don’t pretend to be anything else.
And it’s never mattered to me how others felt about it.
Have a good night FRiend
buona notte
“If anything theyre understating it.”
and how exactly do you know that?
Prayers for Boris Johnson.
Hydroxychloroquine?
Yes I am frequently called a flubro I guess because I think the cure is worse than the disease. I have never asserted that this is a flu.
Im not sure what a flubro is, but from the context, it seems like if you dont agree with Tony Fauci, or CNN fear-mongering, you are a flubro. If you compare Covid-19 to the flu, you are a flubro.
Actually, it seems like a worthwhile comparison - how does it compare to the seasonal flu? Seems like a perfectly reasonable question. I know Im curious. Ive heard President Trump make that comparison - I guess hes a flubro. I guess Im a flubro.
Also, the FReepers calling people flubros seem like total a-holes.
So, all in all, Id rather be a flubro (whatever that is).
Where do I sign up?
“At his age”...?
He’s 55, 14 years younger than the average COVID-19 dead in Italy
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