Grant Stewart: My experience of covid-19—not just another experience
I don’t have an angle. What I mean is, when I was asked to write an article about my experience of covid, I wanted to come up with a fresh […]
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Klara Morsley: Can covid-19 make the NHS a better employer?
The pandemic has forced the NHS to treat its staff more flexibly. Klara Morsley hopes the organisation will carry some of this learning forward […]
Covid-19: The catalyst we needed to reform UK research?
Our experience of covid-19 has brought so many truisms—”nothing will be the same again”—”the new normal”—”post-covid world”, most implying a negative connotation and in many spheres that is definitely the […]
Covid-19: The Academy of Medical Sciences has produced a useful report, but it’s no substitute for a rapid review of UK preparedness
The report should be fed into a wider-ranging, but rapid, transparent, review of the UK’s covid-19 preparedness […]
To shield or not to shield: the challenges of covid-19 for patients with rare disease
The covid-19 pandemic has significantly increased health and social divides within the NHS. Those with complex health needs and/or chronic health conditions who have been shielding have been hugely affected […]
Mary Brindle: War and peace with covid-19
Metaphors of war were often rolled out as countries geared up for an initial wave of covid-19, but what analogies could be useful to us now as we adjust to […]
Covid-19 exposes how far we have to go to understand the needs of older people
We are currently facing a global pandemic that is particularly fatal for older people. But how well has the humanitarian response in Ukraine been tailored to protect this group? […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Choosing treatments for covid-19
Since SARS-CoV-2 started causing covid-19 many different treatments have been studied, with varying degrees of success, mostly none. An incomplete list of pharmacological interventions that have been registered in clinical […]
Young people with cancer are helping one another through the covid-19 pandemic
How a pan-European cancer patient organisation is tackling a funding shortage while helping the wider community […]
Cross-border implications of the US response to covid-19: an escalating health crisis on Mexico’s northern border
On 20 March 2020, the Trump administration announced that it would be limiting nonessential travel across US land borders [1]. Citing the threat of covid-19, the processing of asylum seekers […]