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In Britain, there is no private physician for the prime minister. The leader must rely on the National Health Service.
A week after his diagnosis, although Mr. Johnson wasn’t gasping to breathe, his doctors grew concerned that the level of oxygen saturation in his blood was too low.
His fiancée, Carrie Symonds, pregnant and herself ill with symptoms of Covid-19, urged Mr. Johnson to get further treatment. Doctors, officials and Ms. Symonds eventually persuaded him to go to a hospital. She told him she needed him cured to help with the imminent arrival of their child.
At 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 5, as Queen Elizabeth rallied the nation with a televised address, an aide drove Mr. Johnson south across the Thames to St Thomas’ hospital. Inside the concrete tower he was placed on a general ward on the 12th floor and given oxygen through a tube in his nose, and then through a mask.
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A week after his diagnosis, although Mr. Johnson wasn’t gasping to breathe, his doctors grew concerned that the level of oxygen saturation in his blood was too low.
His fiancée, Carrie Symonds, pregnant and herself ill with symptoms of Covid-19, urged Mr. Johnson to get further treatment. Doctors, officials and Ms. Symonds eventually persuaded him to go to a hospital. She told him she needed him cured to help with the imminent arrival of their child.
At 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 5, as Queen Elizabeth rallied the nation with a televised address, an aide drove Mr. Johnson south across the Thames to St Thomas’ hospital. Inside the concrete tower he was placed on a general ward on the 12th floor and given oxygen through a tube in his nose, and then through a mask.
Inside Boris Johnson’s Tangle With Covid-19
Little heeding the disease at first, the U.K. prime minister resisted hospitalization, then found himself in the ICU just one day after checking in. A tough decision for doctors followed, and sharp questions for the government as well.
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