Abraar Karan considers the nature of expertise during a pandemic and argues that the notion of “the expert” is largely misplaced […]
Month: March 2020
Stephen L Roberts: Covid-19 and the crisis of international politics
Covid-19 is a global pandemic. It is also a diagnostic for understanding and evaluating the ongoing crisis of international politics. From the initial emergence of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, […]
Jason Gomez: Running a free clinic in the US during the coronavirus pandemic
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 […]
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 […]