Using testing to manage classroom outbreaks, without isolating close contacts, risks increasing disease spread, say these authors […]
Month: January 2021
Creating covid secure schools: We need strategy, not just ad hoc responses
As ever, when it comes to the UK government’s policy on schools, all we hear is the squealing of emergency brakes, say Susan Michie, Stephen Reicher, and John Drury […]
The risk of long covid must be a primary consideration in policy decisions
Dear prime minister, In your address to the nation on 4th January 2021 you said the following regarding the vaccination programme: “By the middle of February … we expect to […]
A scattergun approach to the UK’s vaccine rollout threatens to destroy an already fatigued workforce
The “vaccine postcode lottery”’ is driving morale of healthcare workers down in its random and seemingly unjust distribution, says Clara Munro I have worked in a non-clinical role at The […]
Jennifer Darlow: Show support for your heroes—and if you want, clap
Many of us feel useless, yet now more than ever the greatest support we can give our frontline workers is to stick to the rules, says Jennifer Darlow […]
Covid-19: government must urgently rethink lateral flow test roll out
Plans to widen roll out risk serious harm […]
J Robert Sneyd: Covid-19 vaccine rollout is missing any real sense of urgency
The urgent and efficient deployment of a covid-19 vaccine should be the country’s highest priority It all started so well. Back in March, I contacted the General Medical Council (GMC) […]
Callum Phillips: Ask me my sexuality
Ask, don’t assume, your patient’s sexuality, advises Callum Phillips […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2021
As last year, and previous years, my selected list of medical anniversaries in 2021, illustrated below, is restricted to multiples of 50 years (i.e. years ending in 21 and 71). […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal review—8 January 2021
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]