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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted to hospital over virus symptoms

bbc.co.uk

27 pointsEwanToo16 comments

Usually, one would expect that the British PM would be treated at home; no question of non-availability of resource etc. Hospitalisation might suggest, then, some serious problems with, say, breathing - perhaps necessitating equipment not easily installed in his residence.

Ventilator use is similar to major surgery.

It appears 66% to 90% of corona patients who are put on a ventilator will die.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/8261052...

So the whole "flatten the curve" thing is less useful than advertised.

>It appears 66% to 90% of corona patients who are put on a ventilator will die.

Is there a Data Source for this?

Italy Cremona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0 Italy Bergamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suhYeWEcJg Two hospitals, not a single patient survived ventilation/ecmo to date (two weeks ago).

>So the whole "flatten the curve" thing is less useful than advertised.

Although even if that percentage is right, flattening the curve is still important because if hospitals are slammed with Covid patients in various states of urgency then you're likely going to be failing to save a lot of patients with other ailments.

Also you're saving the mental health of hospital workers who will be massively overworked and then be forced to endlessly be unable to do anything for patients and have to let people die rather than try to give them a chance with a ventilator.

10% to 34% chance of survival is still a long chalk better than 0% chance of survival, which is what serious COVID cases would have if no ventilators were available.

I would imagine they are giving him an MRI.

I am ignorant of this. Why an MRI?

Excuse me. I meant a CT. CT scans were used extensively in China to check the progress of the disease in the lungs.

My point was simply that it is not feasible to bring a CT scanner to his house.

It could not only be because of treatment but because of diagnostics, eg taking a CT if his chest. I am not sure if it’s feasible to do CT Scans at home

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/mar/27/i-shook-...

"Boris Johnson said he was shaking hands with coronavirus patients just weeks before he tested positive for Covid-19... Early this month, he insisted that people would be 'pleased to know' that the virus would not stop him greeting hospital patients with a handshake"

“I’m shaking hands continuously. I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know. I continue to shake hands.“

Guess who said that a couple of weeks ago.

I really hope this doesn’t kill him.

Nature ignores hubris. I don’t wish death or suffering on anyone, only that this enlightens him at least a little.

Please don't do this here.

Apologies, I thought that was a rather mild statement but I take your point.

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