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Month: April 2020

Covid-19 vaccines: global access means having enough 

April 30, 2020

Covid-19 vaccine development is advancing at an unprecedented pace, with more than 80 candidates in early stage development, and a number already in human clinical trials. Through vaccination, we can […]

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Andy Cowper: Slippery language and defensive politics try to hide the real problems

April 30, 2020

One golden rule of a crisis of the scale of the covid-19 pandemic must be that leaders’ communications need to be exceptionally candid and clear and that they need to […]

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Ian Hamilton: Loosening regulations on controlled drugs during the covid-19 pandemic

April 30, 2020

Bureaucracy is preventing timely and adequate access to controlled drugs during the pandemic, says Ian Hamilton […]

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Richard Smith: How to talk to the dying—a lesson from a novel

April 30, 2020

In one chapter of Elizabeth Strout’s novel Olive, Again Olive Kitteridge, a large, blunt-speaking, retired schoolmistress, encounters in a supermarket Cindy Coombs, who is being treated for cancer and has […]

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Sharon Cox: How are we assisting our most disadvantaged during Covid-19?

April 30, 2020

New collaborations between drug and alcohol services and homeless charities provide some hope, says Sharon Cox […]

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Seth Holmes: As societies re-open in this pandemic, we need social solidarity to survive the summer

April 30, 2020

While we must take “physical distancing” very seriously, we need the opposite of “social distancing” to survive this pandemic, argues Seth Holmes […]

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Should we really be using final year medical students to bolster the coronavirus front line? 

April 30, 2020

Among the rest of the coronavirus news torrent, stories are beginning to permeate that final year medical students are being “fast tracked” through graduation and onto the wards to help […]

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Helgi Johannsson: Let’s talk about death

April 30, 2020

Every anaesthetist and intensive care doctor will have wondered if they did the right thing by taking someone to the intensive care unit. It is often the “easier” thing to do when […]

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From moral injury to mental illness: we must protect the wellbeing of frontline covid-19 staff

April 30, 2020

Derek K Tracy, Mark Tarn, Neil Greenberg provide lessons from the London Nightingale […]

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Covid-19 affects everything—more than a disease control plan, we need a manifesto

April 29, 2020

Across the world, scientists and public health experts are producing new ideas, knowledge, and technologies to combat covid-19. The degree of cross-border sharing of data, research methods, and evidence has […]

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