Oh dear

[BrilloPad]

He paid for his stay many times over....

[SueEllen]

He paid for his stay many times over....

NHS Charities != NHS

Though they do use the money to make staff and patients lives nicer. So all those gardens, toys, lockers, furniture in staff rooms/bad news rooms, etc in hospitals are funded by it.

[d000hg]

Surely with his age (and status) he'd be vaccinated among the first?

Maybe he had first doze and this is where "let's delay 2nd doze to get higher number of "vaccinated" people" PR strategy fails...

Nope, he was on pneumonia medication so couldn't have it, apparently.

I heard he HAD had it, first dose at least.

[ladymuck]

Having his family with him would seem to indicate things are not going well. BUT! What about all those other families denied the same?

Captain Sir Tom Moore joined by family in hospital after Covid diagnosis | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Family members of Captain Sir Tom Moore are with him in hospital after he tested positive for Covid-19, Bedford hospital has said.

The 100-year-old charity fundraiser was admitted to hospital on Sunday, after being treated for pneumonia for some time and testing positive for the virus the week before last.

On Monday, Bedford hospital released a statement with the agreement of Moore’s daughters, Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira, saying: “Bedford hospital continues to care for Captain Sir Tom Moore. At this time members of Captain Tom’s family are with him.

[MarillionFan]

Having his family with him would seem to indicate things are not going well. BUT! What about all those other families denied the same?

Captain Sir Tom Moore joined by family in hospital after Covid diagnosis | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Yeah? How does that work then?

[SueEllen]

Having his family with him would seem to indicate things are not going well. BUT! What about all those other families denied the same?

Captain Sir Tom Moore joined by family in hospital after Covid diagnosis | Coronavirus | The Guardian

I know from those pandemic clips on the different news channels that some patients are allowed to have one or two visitors randomly.

They are never clear on what the criteria is for a patient having visitors.

What is sad is some of the patients are just so happy to talk to the journo and camera man as it is someone new to talk to. (The same goes for care home residents they talk to.)

[d000hg]

Having his family with him would seem to indicate things are not going well. BUT! What about all those other families denied the same?

I can think of about 32 million reasons why

[SueEllen]

He's dead.

Least he had a good innings.

Horrible way to go for anyone.

[d000hg]

It sounds like it was at least fairly quick, once it got really serious.

Has the petition for a state funeral launched yet? Not a bad idea.

[OwlHoot]

Horrible way to go for anyone.

No idea if he struggled with pneumonia and covid, but in general pneumonia is a pretty easy way for old timers to pop off. At any rate, there are lots of worse ways to go.

In the days before antibiotics, medical staff called pneumonia "the old person's friend" because elderly patients would become confused and fade away without any suffering almost before they even knew what was happening.

edit: Not sure if that is still the case these days, if they pump the patients full of antibiotics.