“We’ve been sprinting a marathon,” the email read. I sighed after reading it. It was the tenth time in as many days this analogy was used to discuss the pace […]
Year: 2020
Covid-19: an urgent threat and an opportunity for Indigenous and minority groups in high-income countries
Beyond the devastating direct impacts of the covid-19 pandemic, there is an additional threat to the health of minority and Indigenous peoples. The covid-19 pandemic is stretching health and social […]
What is healthcare professionals’ role in public discussion surrounding vaccination in a post-truth world?
The news of the vaccine was, at least initially, heralded as the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel of disaster that has been 2020. As time has gone […]
Confronting the pathophysiology of long covid
Many are by now familiar with terms such as “long covid” or “long-haulers”—the notion that we need to move beyond covid-19 as an acute episode stratified into asymptomatic, mild-symptomatic, or […]
Women in surgery: We should be asking how to make the specialty somewhere women want to work
It is not enough to encourage women to enter surgery if the workplace then discriminates against them, write Roisin Finn and colleagues […]
How hip-hop’s progressive narratives are helping to tackle mental health stigma
Hip-hop is one of the world’s most popular music genres, with its global prominence transcending language and geography.1 More than ever before, hip-hop artists are publicly acknowledging their mental health […]
Karl Friston and Anthony Costello: What we have learned from the second covid-19 surge?
—And what does it means for the future? By any metric, one should probably call it—the autumn surge has peaked. So what have we learned? Before the second peak, we […]
Peter Roderick: Is it lawful to require self-isolation after a positive covid-19 test?
In Portugal on 11 November 2020 an appeal court rejected the arguments of the Azores regional health authority that four individuals could be forced to quarantine after one of them […]
Mike Gill: Liverpool’s pilot of mass asymptomatic testing for SARS-CoV-2—for what purpose and at what cost?
On 9 September, Boris Johnson, the UK’s prime minister, shared his ambitions for using new types of coronavirus tests. “In the near future we hope to start using testing to […]
The plastic pandemic: could the environmental impact of the NHS response to covid-19 be reduced?
The NHS disposes of around 133,000 tonnes of plastic each year, but only about 5% of it is recovered. The recently published Delivering a “Net Zero” National Health Service document […]