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 –...
Read moreThe Precarious Influence of Influenza
by Guy de la Bédoyère Peter Openshaw, Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College, popped up on Andrew Marr this...
Read moreHow 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreWhy 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...
Read morePublic 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...
Read moreMore 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreAre 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...
Read moreHow 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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