Boris Johnson revealed the Covid battle was worse than he let on to the public.Source: ITV
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00:00You write very vividly in your book, Unleashed, about the fact that you almost died.
00:06Yeah, my oxygen levels went down to 72 or something, which is pretty bad.
00:1170 things can get pretty nasty.
00:14But I went into ICU and I saw, sadly, many people like myself.
00:21I mean, slightly overweight, middle-aged men.
00:26The point I want to make is I know how terrible a disease COVID is.
00:31I really do.
00:33And as I try to explain in the book, probably I was groggier coming out
00:39and it took longer for me to recover than I tried to let on,
00:42because I had to get back in the saddle and I had to give leadership on all these difficult questions.
00:48But it left me with an absolute horror of the disease
00:53and a deeply serious determination to make sure that we followed the scientific advice
01:01and that we protected the people.