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Sunday, June 28, 2020

Michael Rosen: ‘I am only finding out now how I was saved from coronavirus’

Home at last after seven weeks in intensive care, the poet pays tribute to ‘incredible’ NHS doctors and nurses

The poet Michael Rosen is only alive because his wife, Emma-Louise Williams, and a GP friend recognised that his condition was deteriorating and took him to A&E in the nick of time, he told the Observer Magazine in an emotional interview this weekend.

Rosen, 74, who came down with coronavirus in mid-March, returned home last week after spending 48 days in intensive care at the Whittington hospital in north London. He spent a further three weeks on a rehabilitation ward, learning to walk again.

He is the kindest, most expressive, hardworking, articulate, laughter-inducing, tear-jerking poet in the business

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