it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. where do you think that the story has kind of got to? well, it carries bubbling along, doesn t it? so, it s not quite, i don t think, necessarily yet at the kind of, the obvious comparisons for the daily telegraph is expenses, mps expenses the best part of 15 years ago. it is generating a lot of news, loads and loads of pick up in lots of different news organisations but it isn t necessarily the top story everywhere, every day for days and days on end but they have got shedload
others and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. the weird do you think that story has got to? weird do you think that story has not to? , ., ~ got to? it s not quite i think necessarily got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet at got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet at the - got to? it s not quite i think necessarily yet at the kind l got to? it s not quite i think| necessarily yet at the kind of obvious comparison of the telegraph. generating a lot of news. loads and loads of pick up and different news organisations but it is not necessarily top story everywhere for days and days on end., but they have shades of stuff to reveal. i went to the headquarters of the telegraph today showing the bunker where they kind of describe this windowless room where about eightjournalists since the turn of the year come over to europe months, sitting in the room not much bigger than this studio, may be
but that, as a lasting legacy of covid, is really quite something. yes. so, to be technical about it if we are going to medical, so when or if the covid virus gets into the bloodstream, then one of the cells that it attacks is the cells that prevent your blood from clotting, because you should only clot when you are exposed to oxygen. so if you attack those cells, you being the virus, then you start clotting and so that is why in the very early stages people were dying from heart attacks, strokes, embolisms, aneurysms and so on and further down the line these clots can go down into the capillaries. and so capillaries were bursting and in my case, in my toes as well, so when i woke up after being in an induced coma for 40 days, i looked down at my toes and there were these kind of red blobs because i had lost my toenails and lost the feeling in my toes, as well. tell us about that moment of waking up. i have cheated, actually,
so if you attack those cells, you being the virus, then you start clotting and so that is why in the very early stages people were dying from heart attacks, strokes, embolisms, aneurysms and so on and further down the line these clots can go down into the capillaries. and so capillaries were bursting and in my case, in my toes as well, so when i woke up after being in an induced coma for 40 days, i looked down at my toes and there were these kind of red blobs because i had lost my toenails and lost the feeling in my toes, as well. tell us about that moment of waking up. i have cheated, actually, because i don t really know anything about it, because i did not want to wake up. i had been in the coma for about 40 days and the medics were getting worried that i would not wake up and also my eyes were dilated, especially the left eye which stays permanently dilated,