For the free clinics in the US that look after a population nearly invisible to the healthcare system, covid-19 has presented some tough decisions. Jason Gomez describes what it has […]
Year: 2020
Covid-19: Protecting frontline healthcare workers—what lessons can we learn from Ebola?
On March 23, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. The virus, which originated in Guinea, subsequently spread to neighbouring countries and become […]
John R Ashton: Covid-19—One minute to midnight
At 8.30 pm on Monday 23rd March 2020, the UK’s prime minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation and finally put the UK into lockdown. To many people this was yet […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Isolation
“No man is an island, entire of itself”. Eight words from John Donne’s “Meditation XVII”, one of his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624), that remind us why isolation, a necessary […]
Ilaria Motta: A new awakening in TB—it’s time to be aware of where we are and where we’re going
TB care has come a long way in recent years, says Ilaria Motta, but there are still obstacles to patients receiving new treatments […]
Can we improve the NHS’s ability to tackle covid-19 through emergency public health interventions?
The public have rapidly picked up on the need to “flatten the curve” of covid-19 and the NHS is exploring all options to increase its capacity. But are we missing […]
Lesley Henderson: Covid-19—we are yet to witness a cohesive government communications strategy
The public’s response to “social distancing” is a government communications failure, says Lesley Henderson […]
Richard Lehman’s covid-19 reviews—23 March 2020
In this weekly round-up, Richard Lehman looks at a personal selection of articles of relevance to clinicians dealing with covid-19 […]
Davina Nylander: How might the social stigma around covid-19 perpetuate the spread of disease?
We must pay attention to the social ills that are being disseminated in the wake of covid-19, argues Davina Nylander […]
Emma Doble: Living in a high-risk group for covid-19
Emma Cartwright describes what it is like being in a high risk group for covid-19 […]