Ahead of the next covid-19 known unknowns webinar, Allyson Pollock discusses the uncertainties around testing for SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic people […]
Month: February 2021
Housing asylum seekers in disused army barracks puts them at risk of covid-19
The covid-19 pandemic has brought particular challenges for people seeking asylum in the UK. Already with poor health outcomes, torture survivors’ and other asylum seekers’ vulnerability to covid-19 is increased, […]
Building back better with a National Nature Service
“Even with all our medical technologies, we cannot have well humans on a sick planet”—Thomas Berry As 2020 threw us into a world of social distancing, health services had to […]
Ella Balasa: Antibiotic resistance, chronic disease, and covid-19—a triple threat
Antibiotic resistance is singlehandedly the greatest threat to vulnerable populations such as people like me with cystic fibrosis. And currently, this threat is compounded by the emergence of the covid-19 […]
We urgently need to double down on the basics, if we are to find a way out of lockdown
As many had predicted, the relaxation of covid-19 restrictions over the Christmas period started to take its toll on the NHS before 2020 was out. [1] Between 28 December 2020 […]
A celebration of community collaboration—the vaccine “makers” give us hope
“Those intense but meaningful days remind me of why I wanted to be a doctor. I ended up exhausted and wired, unable to sleep well, yet with a profound sense […]
Israel’s vaccination rollout: short term success, but questions for the long run
As the pace of the race to the vaccine becomes less salient, equal access to vaccines will become a more prominent issue […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—5 February 2021
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
What can we learn from the great literature of pandemics and pestilences
Throughout centuries, illness, death, and fear resulting from epidemics and pandemics have played a major role in the history of humankind. In additional to historical records of these events, we […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . How many waves make an epidemic?
Dictionaries not uncommonly include abridged versions of words and phrases. The abridged biomedical words in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) listed as being first cited in the 1970s are given […]