During this pandemic, more than ever, we share a common human anxiety of being affected by covid-19 and of experiencing death in our communities. Constant questions in our minds are: […]
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Covid-19: Protect health and social care workers and refer their deaths to the coroner
It is imperative that there is no further delay in providing every healthcare worker with effective PPE […]
Mike Clarke: How can we avoid research waste during the covid-19 pandemic and plan for the future?
Around the world and across disciplines, researchers have turned their attention to covid-19, but we need to ensure this effort is a help rather than a hindrance, says Mike Clarke […]
Richard Lehman’s covid-19 reviews—20 April 2020
In this weekly round-up, Richard Lehman looks at a personal selection of articles of relevance to clinicians dealing with covid-19 […]
Chaand Nagpaul: The disproportionate impact of covid-19 on ethnic minority healthcare workers
In February, The BMJ devoted an edition to the issue of race inequalities in medicine. At that time, no one could have foreseen that new race disparities would manifest themselves […]
The role of universal health coverage in overcoming the covid-19 pandemic
Amirhossein Takian, Mohsen Aarabi and Hajar Haghighi analyse covid-19’s effect on the global economy and what it means for the sustainable development agenda and universal health coverage […]
Gender equality should not be about competing vulnerabilities
Pascale Allotey and Michelle Remme discuss solutions and strategies to tackle gender equality […]
Covid-19: the game changer—for healthcare and society
The coronavirus disease (covid-19) was first identified in China,1,2 and declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th March 2020.3 On that same evening, I was alongside 52,000 […]
Miriam Fine-Goulden: We can do this—I have faith in us
When I was 18, I went to Poland to visit the site of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka. Nothing could prepare me for the utter horror of […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Logarithmic exponents
There is widespread misunderstanding about the meaning of the mathematical idea of “exponential”. Here are some synonyms listed on a website called WordHippo: aggressive, epidemic, ascending, augmented, expanding, growing, mounting, […]