There is so much to ponder in the prime minister’s interview about how Covid-19 almost killed him.
But, in respect of the effort to protect us all, what stood out for me was how and when he was persuaded to move from Downing Street to St Thomas’s Hospital.
‘I wasn’t struggling to breathe but I just wasn’t in good shape and it wasn’t getting better,’ he told the Sun on Sunday.
‘Then the doctors got anxious because they thought that my readings were not where they wanted them to be.
‘Then I was told I had to go into St Thomas’s. I said I really didn’t want to go into hospital…
The PM was taken to hospital, even though – by his own account – he was not struggling to breathe
‘It didn’t seem to me to be a good move but they were pretty adamant. Looking back, they were right to force me to go’.
The prime minister then emotionally describes how he was given ‘litres and litres of oxygen for a long time’ in intensive care.
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