Our national pandemic health protection response in the UK has been undermined at every turn by misinformation and disinformation from self styled “libertarians,” “lockdown sceptics,” “truth seekers,” covid deniers, conspiracy […]
This week saw the UK pass the tragic milestone of more than 100,000 deaths from covid-19, becoming the first country in Europe to do so. Throughout the pandemic there have […]
The covid-19 pandemic is taking a harsh toll on healthcare workers. In the Mirror newspaper on 20 January 2021: “52,000 NHS staff are off sick with covid.” [1] Over 850 […]
Ethnic minority groups, such as those of Black and Asian backgrounds, continue to be disproportionately affected by covid-19. [1] A large number of studies have emerged investigating the relationship between […]
A report out last week by the House of Commons Public Accounts committee largely went unnoticed, but should concern all of us and not just colleagues doing their upmost to […]
Vaccine nationalism will hinder our ability to effectively combat covid-19 This month, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), repeated his concerns about the ugly face […]
With government–backed furlough schemes in use, and additional funds flowing to the NHS like no time since 2010, it might not initially seem as though the past year represents the […]
As the UK waits out its third national lockdown, Christina Pagel lays out the steps needed for a country to exit the cycle […]
Trainee doctors are experiencing a great deal of anxiety about how covid related absences will affect their progression in training, writes Rachel Pillai […]
When we fail to recognise the systematically unequal social forces that drive the spread of disease, it can lead to harm, say Seth Holmes and colleagues […]
