Categories for Healthcare and Treatment

If I Can Survive Four Days in a Corona Cauldron, Maybe Everyone Should Get Back to Work

by Nicholas Booth You really ought to go back to work, you know. The rewards massively outweigh the risks –...

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The Precarious Influence of Influenza

by Guy de la Bédoyère Peter Openshaw, Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College, popped up on Andrew Marr this...

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How Have We Responded to Previous Pandemics?

As we tot up the unintended consequences of lockdowns across the world, it’s worth bearing in mind that the quarantining...

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The 1957-58 Asian Flu Pandemic: Why Did the U.K. Respond So Differently?

1. Culturing a Pandemic A useful place to start when trying to understand how societies respond to pandemics is Lowell...

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Why Have There Been So Many Deaths in Care Homes?

The coronavirus care-home scandal has been smouldering away in the media for some time, flaring now and then into a...

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Public Health England: A Predictable Failure

by Rob Lyons As the old joke goes, “You had one job.” Public Health England (PHE) is an executive agency...

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More on the NCSC defence of the NHSx app

More specifically… As its own disclaimer points out, regardless of what this paper says, what really matters is what the...

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The Incredible and Scary Truth about COVID-19 Tests

David Crowe, a Canadian independent researcher of infectious disease models and the host of a weekly radio show in Canada...

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Are Hospitals Spreading the Virus?

Does admitting patients suspected of having COVID-19 to hospital increase the spread of the virus? That’s one explanation for why...

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How Effective are Ventilators?

We have zero success for patients who were intubated. Our thinking is changing to postpone intubation to as long as...

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