I'm sure everyone feels the same about this; funnily enough, when I got my cold/flu/CV last month my worry was waking up unable to breathe (my brother Andy had been through that and was rushed to hospital; double pneumonia diagnosed but we both suspect CV). I bet that's what is worrying Boris.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52192604

Now in intensive care, very worrying, he really needs to stop been so stubborn and have complete rest. All hell isn't going to break loose just because Dominic Raab takes over for a couple of days.

Best wishes and good luck to Boris - I hope he's out of ICU very soon...

This is very worrying news; like some of the Doctors and Nurses, seemingly without "underlying health conditions". I wonder if he's been a smoker? This is only my personal theory based on the symptoms of the virus. Like Flu, there is no cure and essentially no treatment, but Flu tends to attack parts of people which are usually good at healing themselves. This nasty bug aims at the respiration; all that can be done is ventilation and hope.

Yes, let's hope he is in there on a highly cautionary basis and makes a full recovery.

The medical experts are saying that ‘cytokine storm syndrome’ - the immune system’s response to fighting off the virus, not the virus itself may be the real killer with this disease. It’s very worrying indeed.

Just before the end of WWI, in 1918, another Prime Minister - David Lloyd George - had a sore throat.

And was later diagnosed with Spanish Flu - which killed over 50 million people, throughout the world.

Isolating - and on a ventilator - DLG made a full recovery, and had a long and healthy life.

The childishness, and downright nastiness, of some people in this country gets more and more depressing. As soon as Johnson left intensive care, the twitterati started '#BoristheButcher' messages, blaming him personally for every death and every setback since this started.They think they're bright political activists when really they're as thick as pig shit. We're going to have this 'Now, what you SHOULD have done' nonsense for months on end now. It doesn't matter who was in power - they would have been just as puzzled by the conflicting scientific and medical advice they were receiving.

Now following Mr King's logic, somebody with BoJo's profile wouldn't have been selected for individual isolation and social distancing, and would have been left out in the community possibly spreading the virus to everyone he shook hands with. It has to be said that without a draconian lockdown, a lot more susceptible people would undoubtedly get infected and die from the complications and diseases COVID-19 induces. A person with CPF (lung scarring) can live for many years in normal circumstances, but a civilised society won't let nature's eugenic nature throw them to the wolves. We want to do the decent thing and prevent people from dying wherever and whenever such threats as COVID-19 appear. The unpredictable nature of this virus means we have to have lockdowns till its rate of reproduction falls below 1. We also don't know if different strains are mutating out there and at what rate.

If you look at the fatality rates in Sweden and Norway, an interesting picture has started to emerge in that region. Sweden has had 870 deaths whereas Norway has had 113. One doesn't have to be a tootal genius to work out which one of those two countries chose not to have a draconian lockdown, and I doubt very much that Swedish medics are a lot better at detecting the presence of coronavirus in their deceased patients than their counterparts elsewhere.

time.com/5817412/sweden-coronavirus/

Oh come on Havana you CAN'T be that stupid. The differences in figures are about totally different measurement methods and testing. Do you really believe so few people were infected in China, with only 3000 deaths? Do you believe the Italian, British, American, Spanish figures? Do you believe nobody has died from causes provoked by CoronaVirus in any refugee camps, simply because they are too busy trying to live to count the corpses? Really, moronic posts like this only illustrate your own stupidity.