Spain has the dubious honour of being the country with the highest number of covid-19 cases among healthcare workers. In Spain, at the time of writing, approximately 50,000 healthcare professionals […]
Year: 2020
Peter Brindley: Covid-19—and now what?
A single coronavirus weighs less than one attogram (which is 10 to the power minus 18 grams). If 50-70 billion coronaviruses are needed to make a human sick, then we’re […]
Louis Lederman: NHS workers need protecting too
Once this pandemic is over, we should thank NHS staff in real terms, argues Louis Lederman […]
Keerthi Gondy: Covid-19—US medical schools should learn from the UK’s early graduations
A lack of clarity and collaboration has hampered final year medical students seeking to help with the US’s response to covid-19, says Keerthi Gondy […]
We need time and space to grieve during covid-19
Those working in the health and care system especially need to tell their stories […]
Balancing lives and livelihoods: relaxation of lockdown needs to be finely balanced
As many countries start to ease lockdown measures, these authors advise that any relaxation of measures should be gradual, cautious, and constantly reviewed […]
Neglect of low-income migrants in covid-19 response
A South Asian perspective on the failures of global and national public health policies South Asia, home to around a quarter of the world’s population and 40% of the world’s […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—29 May 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Hydroxychloroquine and torsades de pointes
The World Health Organization has announced that it has temporarily halted the hydroxychloroquine arm of its Solidarity trial. This followed the publication in The Lancet of an analysis of registry […]
Andy Cowper: The public health of politics and the politics of public health
A global pandemic of a potentially fatal respiratory disease is probably the worst time for politics and public health to collide. In the political dance of covid-19, we have seen […]