The grieving doctor has to be given space and time to grieve, both of which are difficult in our current healthcare environment, observe Sai Krishna Tikka, Deyashini Lahiri, and Vikas […]
The UK is an outlier by allowing children to remain unvaccinated at a time when lifting of restrictions will increase covid-19 infection rates […]
We must not return to pre-covid levels of international air travel if we are to hope to avert climate catastrophe and reduce the risks of future pandemics, argue these authors […]
Jacky Davis reports from the second session of the People’s covid inquiry “We have a growing confidence that we will have a test track and trace system that will be […]
Since the early days of the pandemic there has been debate as to whether covid-19 transmission can be airborne, and whether healthcare workers require routine airborne precautions, or if respiratory […]
Financial, epidemiological, and moral arguments should push policy makers to move away from nation centric vaccine policies and move towards global vaccine equity. In 1955, when Jonas Salk was asked […]
The covid-19 pandemic is a timely reminder that our health system is only as strong as its workforce. For over a year, health workers worldwide have mobilised to treat those […]
It would be hard to have missed the clashing of the views in infectious diseases, aerosol science, and evidence based medicine over “airborne” transmission of SARS-CoV-2 over the past few […]
Imagine if we had a polypill with a strong evidence base for reduced morbidity and mortality, improved patient satisfaction, reduced outpatient referrals, safer prescribing, and lower hospital admission rates. [1,2] […]
I am a consultant radiologist working in the UK and contracted a severe case of covid-19 during the first wave in 2020. However, I was lucky enough to survive after […]
