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Psychological PPE: do we need to start fit testing earlier in medical training?
As we exit another covid-19 peak and start to ease out of a third UK lockdown, concerns are being raised about the resilience of the medical workforce and ability of […]
Institutional inoculation: protecting society from pandemics and politicians
Two million covid-19 deaths have brought the violence of unequal societies squarely into public discussion—“social murder” as Kamran Abbasi has argued in The BMJ.1 What recourse do we have, he […]
Nicci Gerrard: It is unacceptable that caregivers should be refused meaningful contact with their loved ones
Every single day, my co-founder of John’s Campaign and I receive phone calls and emails from people in distress and despair. John’s Campaign is an organisation set up to fight […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Homeostasis and allostasis
In most cases we do not know who first coined or even used a word. Evidence can generally be found of the earliest instance of a word in written texts, […]
Covid-19 vaccine adverse events: balancing monitoring with confidence in vaccines
As the global covid-19 vaccine rollout continues, uncertainties regarding the association between thromboembolic events and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have dominated the news during March, leading 18 European countries to suspend […]
Andy Cowper: An ARIA of revenge, sung by Dominic Cummings
Evidence given this week to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee by blogger and data science fanboy Dominic Cummings (ex-leader of the Brexit referendum-winning Vote Leave campaign and […]
Increased risk of mortality in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/1
We started estimating the SARS-CoV-2 reproduction number in the UK using Public Health England data in March 2020, contributing to the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling subgroup (SPI-M) weekly consensus estimates. […]
Bing Jones: The medical establishment is failing the UK public on covid-19
Doctors in public facing roles have failed to spell out the dangers of flawed public health initiatives. Why is the mainstream medical profession chronically acquiescent on public health failures, asks […]
Covid-19 test and trace scandal—it’s not too late to change the story
The recent House of Commons Public Accounts Committee Report illuminates the absurd cost and failures of the NHS Test and Trace service. [1,2] It seems that the UK government is […]