Karl Friston: How should we respond to an upsurge in covid-19 cases?
There is a third way beyond lockdown or herd immunity, says Karl Friston […]
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Six steps to promote recovery of the health and social care system from the covid-19 pandemic
The National Health Service has been transformed in the past five months to respond to the covid-19 pandemic, and the social care system has been severely strained. More recently, the […]
Delivering for women, children, and adolescents during and after covid-19
A new report argues the decades long efforts to improve health should be shielded from the effects of the pandemic and the response to it […]
Richard Smith: Could Sweden have got it right with covid-19?
Pandemics are unpredictable and it is too soon to say, argues Richard Smith […]
Covid-19: An open letter to the UK’s chief medical officers
A group of experts have written to the UK CMOs and GCSA, expressing concern about a second wave of covid-19 […]
Breaking bad news to families in the covid-19 pandemic: how do we adapt our practice?
Virtual consultations require us to consider our approach when breaking bad news to families during the pandemic, argue these authors […]
Rare diseases in the time of covid-19: once forgotten, always forgotten?
The covid-19 pandemic has affected every thread of every fabric of our society and none more so than the most vulnerable among us—individuals with rare diseases. 75% of those affected […]
The needs of disabled children are being overlooked in the wake of covid-19
I am a genomic scientist and have spent more than 26 years working with the human genome on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge, UK. Currently, I work at Congenica, […]
Covid-19: how can we prevent people from ethnic minorities being disproportionately affected in a second wave?
The first wave of covid-19 in the UK has passed. We now know that there is over-representation of people from ethnic minorities among those infected; they are also at higher […]
Rising covid-19 transmission and a broken testing system have left us in a dangerous place, but it’s not too late
A backlog in testing, leaves us in an incredibly dangerous position, says Christina Pagel […]