Michael Rosen: Last News

Former children’s laureate Michael Rosen is “very poorly” after spending a night in intensive care, according to his family.

Michael Rosen has said he was just hours from death when he was rushed to A&E with coronavirus.The poet and author, 74, spent almost seven weeks in an induced coma on a ventilator after falling ill in March.He told the Today programme: “I thought I was coping with a flu… or that it was the coronavirus and I was going to be one of those people who experience it as a kind of flu.”But things started “moving very, very quickly” when a neighbour, who is a GP, did an “oxygen saturation test… and suddenly it was, ‘You’ve got to go to A&E now’.”He said of being “rushed” to A&E: “I don’t think I sensed, at that moment, that I was probably two or three hours off departing this planet.“My respiratory system was conking out but so were my liver and

Former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen has returned home from hospital following a battle with coronavirus.

coronavirus and spent 47 days in intensive care.And thankfully, the We’re Going On A Bear Hunt author is now in recovery and is back at home.Rosen shared a tweet with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, tweeting: ‘Thank you very much Jeremy for your goodwill message when I went into intensive care. I’ve survived! And came home yesterday.

Kate Garraway been sent a hopeful message from a fan who told her about author Michael Rosen's incredible recovery from coronavirus after 47 days in intensive care.