Author Michael Rosen attends Westminster Abbey coronavirus service
Author Michael Rosen has said he “can’t bear” seeing nurses being underpaid and “100%” supports their right to strike, after reading a poem in Westminster Abbey dedicated to the NHS workers who saved his life.
The former children’s laureate read an extract from his 2021 book, Many Different Kinds of Love, at a central London coronavirus remembrance service attended by hundreds of bereaved relatives and key workers on Tuesday.
Mr Rosen, 76, contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and spent 40 days in a medically-induced coma after suffering a microbleed on his brain which has left him deaf in his left ear, blind in his left eye, and without feeling in his toes.
Speaking after the Westminster ceremony on Tuesday, Mr Rosen said that while he was unconscious, nurses on his ward sang happy birthday to him as he turned 74 in May 2020.
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