I’m not optimistic about his recovery, TBH.
You’d need a lot more details to objectively assess his condition. Doctors might, for example, use the PORT score or other severity scale.
Yep. For those who have not read “Conclave” as a procedural, you might want to hop to it.
Ziggy says there’s a 97% probability that you’ll complete your leap if you ordain a female cardinal.
As a very lapsed Catholic, I reckon he’s about to die.
Bar a miracle, of course. God so lovéd the world after all.
Every time a pope gets seriously ill I can imagine Jesse Jackson leading a Vatican crowd chanting “KEEP POPE ALIVE”
Sounds like a variant of “guarded” prognosis. Could go either way.
ABC News was slow to load the latest update, and for a moment I thought it was telling us “Trump expected to name Kash Patel as acting Pope”.
It would seem awkward to pray for his recovery, no? Isn’t that a great outcome - a return to god?
I’d think that the prayers would be more like “let God’s will be done!”
will a Pyrrhuloxia do?
Probably a literal translation of “Pronostico Reservado” (in Spanish) or it’s similar Italian equivalent.
I mean, whenever an 88-year-old is hospitalized, there’s only so good the prognosis can be.
And when a famous 88 years old’s press secretary says he is in danger, they are signaling that they expect him to die soon.
“Mild kidney failure” according to the Vatican press office.
When it comes to kidney function, isn’t it pass/fail? How can kidneys fail mildly?
I used to attend a Lutheran church whose pastor, while doing healing prayers, would say, “Lord, heal this person to the degree You find appropriate” but he knew a little about what he was talking about, because he’d had a liver transplant.
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Thanks to Hollywood, we’re all experts now. That movie is going to rake it in on pay-per-view.
No, it’s a spectrum, measured by glomerular filtration rate (glomeruli are individual filtration units in the kidney). Imagine if you had a filter that only delivered, say, 40% of the flow rate it did when it was new. You could plausibly say the filter was experiencing partial failure.
Waiting for the announcement that he’s slightly dead…
That means he’s mostly alive…
Reaches for mutton sandwich.