Although covid-19 is a new and emerging disease, it could be one of the best understood in terms of its sex-disaggregated outcomes. [1] This may sound surprising. Sex-disaggregated data (separated for […]
The covid-19 pandemic has brutally exposed inequality in societies worldwide. Older age, male sex, socio-economic deprivation and ethnicity are all risk factors for morbidity and mortality from covid-19. This provides […]
Months of isolation and reduced levels of activity at home will have an immense deconditioning effect on millions of people, say Muir Gray and William Bird […]
The barrier that personal protective equipment creates between healthcare staff and their patients has changed the emotional and psychological dimensions of healing, says Trupti Gilada […]
The covid-19 pandemic has changed almost all aspects of our world, necessitating rapid and flexible adaptation. Medical schools are having to deal with the pandemic as organizations responsible for teaching […]
Italy is one of the countries in the world most affected by the covid-19 pandemic. [1] However, hopefully soon, Italy shall overcome covid-19 and the time will come to assess […]
The covid-19 crisis has placed extraordinary pressures on the health service. Public health measures have been implemented to reduce community spread and ease pressures on the NHS and these have […]
We do not yet know precisely the outcomes that survivors of covid-19 will face, but we should be ready with support for those experiencing the psychiatric sequelae of intensive care, say Daniela […]
For decades academics and policy makers have warned of the risks of a viral pandemic with effects as devastating as the Spanish Flu in 1918. What they did not anticipate, […]
Pandemic outbreaks regularly surface global lessons in urban health and planning. Michele Acuto looks at what the covid-19 pandemic can teach us […]
