[Mick]

To which I return to my earlier question: can anyone remember a leader of a modern developed nation being admitted to the ICU for the flu? Boris Johnson staked his reputation on COVID-19 being not that much worse than the flu, so he clearly had no political incentive to be admitted to the ICU. Yes, it's an anecdote. But there's no way to spin how devastating that anecdote is to anyone who thinks this is no different from the flu.

I don't actually remember it, but President Wilson was hospitalized during the Spanish Flu.

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/spanis...ighborhood

[Mick]

To which I return to my earlier question: can anyone remember a leader of a modern developed nation being admitted to the ICU for the flu? Boris Johnson staked his reputation on COVID-19 being not that much worse than the flu, so he clearly had no political incentive to be admitted to the ICU. Yes, it's an anecdote. But there's no way to spin how devastating that anecdote is to anyone who thinks this is no different from the flu.

I don't actually remember it, but President Wilson was hospitalized during the Spanish Flu.

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/spanis...ighborhood