What treatment could Boris Johnson receive in an intensive care unit? | ITV News

Intensive Care Units are specialist wards for patients who are too ill to be treated elsewhere.

They have sophisticated equipment that allows close monitoring of how the body is coping, as well as ventilators and oxygen. And there are highly skilled, specialist staff.

ITV News Health Correspondent Emily Morgan explains what they do, and what treatment the Prime Minister could receive.

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In This Story: Emily Morgan

Emily Morgan is Health Correspondent for ITV News. Before moving to Health, Morgan was a political correspondent based in Westminster for ITV News, and has covered several UK General Elections.

As a senior Health correspondent for ITV, Morgan has been a prominent reporter during the novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020.

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