Who can tell? he's at the high end of the 90s, so the probability of death is high, but I think still less than 50%, in other words what I have to remember is he has more chance of surviving than of dying. He's unlikely to be considered for ICU, as the reasoning will be that at that age and with comorbidities he won't survive, so we just have to hope he doesn't get that ill. For the time being he will stay in the nursing home, and I suppose we're very lucky he's in a nursing home not a care home.
He's confined to his room. Apparently coping well mentally and not too spooked out by everyone being in full PPE, visors etc. They're trying to work out how to persuade him to drink more - he's resisting drinking because he doesn't want to have to wee. He probably doesn't know his test result, and although knowing it might persuade him to drink, it might also worry him. So hard to know what to do.
He's 5 days in from the test, so probably the next week is critical in knowing just how badly he's likely to be affected.
DS1 is delivering some stuff to us on Thursday, so I shall tell him then, and prime his best friend because I'm very conscious that DS1 is living on his own. DS2 is closer to his grandfather but he has a partner.
Difficult to know what to do about telling people. Obvious thought is "if he hasn't got symptoms, then don't worry anyone". But on the other hand, if he doesn't develop symptoms and I have to tell people, it just gets too difficult to remember not to tell them when the test was and reveal that I've not told them things. Besides, it might spur them into writing letters, and he'd appreciate that.
Meanwhile, we had the chance to subscribe and get his name on a memorial that is important to him, and when I explained the circumstance, they queue-jumped us and emailed the certificate, so that's something nice we've been able to do for him.
Sorry about that brain dump! Apart from DH I haven't yet got anyone in real life to talk to (not talking to friends until I've told family).