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Doctor who saved Boris Johnson's life warns coronavirus could have 'long-term' effects

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A doctor who helped save Prime Minister Boris Johnson's life previously warned the coronavirus will give some patients "long-term" effects if they have been critical with the killer bug.

Professor Nicholas Hart also compared Covid-19 to polio, the serious viral infection which wreaked havoc in the 20th century.

In March, Prof Hart tweeted: "Covid-19 is this generation’s polio. Patients have mild, moderate and severe illness. "Large numbers of patients will have physical, cognitive and psychological disability post critical illness that will require long-term management.

We must plan ahead." He also said before the UK was placed on lockdown: "A plea for help. "I have been working for 18 hours a day, like many others, to ensure we can

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