Boris Johnson: His Doctors Ready To Announce His Death While He Was In Intensive Care

Boris Johnson told the Sun on Sunday about the terrible days he could have been swept away by the corona-virus and what doctors had to consider when his condition worsened.

At the start of the corona-virus health crisis, like his Brazilian and American counterparts – Jaïr Bolsonaro and Donald Trump – the British Prime Minister was skeptical. Faced with what he considered to be a big flu, the occupier of 10 Downing Street multiplied the mistakes, refusing to apply barrier gestures and social distancing.

A mistake that could well have been fatal to him even as his partner Carrie Symmonds was preparing to give him a sixth child.

On March 27, the Prime Minister announced that he was positive for corona-virus, he said: “In the last 24 hours, I have developed mild symptoms and the screening indicated that I had contracted corona-virus. I am now in isolation but I continue to govern by video-conference in order to continue the fight against this virus”.

BoJo recklessly chooses not to see any doctors who are reluctant to leave 10 Downing Street. On April 5, he had no choice and was eventually taken to the emergency room at St. Thomas Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. His state of health then deteriorated dramatically.

Doctors prepared for the death of Boris Johnson

So much so that, the latter reveals, the doctors were preparing to announce his death. The Prime Minister said he had been given “liters and liters of oxygen” to help him fight the deadly virus.

In the Sun On Sunday, he said: “It was an extremely difficult time, I will not deny it. They had a strategy for dealing with a “death of Stalin” scenario. He goes on to say, “Doctors had to be prepared in case things went wrong.” But he admits his astonishment: “It was hard to believe that in just a few days my health had deteriorated so badly.”

According to Wilfred’s father, Lawrie Nicholas, it was while his doctors were debating the possibility of invasive ventilation that they began to think about how to handle the news of his death.

“The wrong time came when we were 50-50 on the need to place a tube in my trachea,” he says, adding that the oxygen saturation indicators in his blood were still moving in a very bad direction at the time. “The doctors had a whole series of protocols available to them if the situation had gotten seriously out of hand,” he confesses.

The Curator recalls wondering how he was going to cope. In the end, it was with the constant care of an armada of caregivers who stood watch day and night – as he acknowledged in his message to the nation – that he managed to get out of the rut. On April 12, Boris Johnson found his way back to Downing Street and two weeks later became a father again. A joy he owes to the caretakers, to whom he pays symbolic homage with his son’s first name.