Health professionals have an urgent window of opportunity to engage in tackling air pollution and inequality through supporting a radical reallocation of urban street space for walking and cycling. The […]
Year: 2020
Ceinwen Giles: The shielder’s dilemma
As the government look set to make an announcement on shielding, Ceinwen Giles discusses the impact that shielding is having on patients and their families […]
Covid-19: Male disadvantage highlights the importance of sex-disaggregated data
Although covid-19 is a new and emerging disease, it could be one of the best understood in terms of its sex-disaggregated outcomes. [1] This may sound surprising. Sex-disaggregated data (separated for […]
David Gilbert on Michael Seres—three times as good
I want to cry. But I hear his voice. “Cut it out. Get to the point”. He was a legend and true Mensch. In 2011, Michael woke up in hospital […]
Judging the value of serology tests for covid-19—caution is required in interpreting results
Testing for covid-19 is critically important for the management of disease and prevention of spread. There has been understandable concern about the need to develop good tests and ensure that […]
David Oliver: The UK government’s pandemic response has been economical with the truth
Much of the rhetoric on the coronavirus pandemic has drawn on battlefield metaphors. Perhaps the notion that truth is the first casualty of war also applies to our government’s response […]
The hidden burden of laughing gas
The frequent presence of silver canisters, or “whippits,” on our streets (even during the covid-19 lockdown) is a visible mark of the increasing incidence of nitrous oxide (N2O) or laughing […]
Kramer Chall: For medical students, volunteering in the pandemic can be an opportunity for professional growth
There is not a person or aspect of life that has not been affected by covid-19. The pandemic hit as I was approaching the notoriously hard second year exams at […]
Raj Bhopal: Delaying part of PHE’s report on covid-19 and ethnic minorities turned a potential triumph into a PR disaster
The covid-19 pandemic has brutally exposed inequality in societies worldwide. Older age, male sex, socio-economic deprivation and ethnicity are all risk factors for morbidity and mortality from covid-19. This provides […]
Covid-19 will be followed by a deconditioning pandemic
Months of isolation and reduced levels of activity at home will have an immense deconditioning effect on millions of people, say Muir Gray and William Bird […]