Surviving Covid: Life after ICU
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The Times
4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What are the longterm effects of Covid-19? Times’ journalist Roger Boyes spent weeks under sedation in the intensive care unit after being diagnosed with covid-19 in March. He is one of the thousands who were put on a ventilator for lifesaving treatment at the height of the pandemic.
Guests:
Roger Boyes, Times Diplomatic Editor.
Dr Joel Meyer, ICU consultant.
Dr Alex Quigley, clinical psychologist.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | I was on one of these trolleys. Virtually from that moment I lost any real sense of what I was doing. |
| 0:12.0 | That's to say I deteriorated very fast after that |
| 0:14.8 | moment. It marked my farewell to a different kind of life in a way. It was the frontier |
| 0:20.6 | post between pre-Cov-19 and actually acknowledging that the disease existed |
| 0:26.3 | and being treated. |
| 0:28.6 | Back in May we spoke to Roger Boys, the Times diplomatic editor and one of the first tranche of serious COVID |
| 0:36.0 | sufferers in London. Roger had just been discharged from intensive care where he'd been |
| 0:42.2 | battling for his life on a ventilator. |
| 0:46.3 | Four months on, what are the long-term effects of COVID? |
| 0:50.8 | Something rather ungainly happened to us to COVID sufferers. Our brains are |
| 0:56.8 | reacting differently, but we're learning to deal with things. |
| 1:02.1 | Since he left hospital, Roger has been monitored by a group of doctors who have agreed to talk to us about his progress. |
| 1:10.0 | It's the combined effects of being on a ventilator, having low blood pressure, |
| 1:14.4 | having low oxygen and other medications, and being just laid in bed instead of |
| 1:19.0 | active for many weeks that causes that, as you call call it long tale of illness. |
| 1:24.5 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm Manveen Rana. Today, life after ICU, the long-term effects of COVID and its treatment. |
| 1:42.4 | Back in May, the country was still in lockdown and every evening people would be glued to the government's daily briefings. |
| 1:50.0 | Here's the start of the briefing. The business secretary, |
| 1:54.1 | Alok Sharma just coming in, Professor Stephen Powers. |
| 1:57.0 | This was on May the 12th, when our first interview with Roger Boyes was |
| 2:01.5 | published. First, I want to update you on the latest data on the coronavirus response. |
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