June 10th, 2020In an open letter, 27 leading medical figures in Britain have warned of a second wave of coronavirus that will kill many more, “unless we find quick, practical solutions to some of the structural problems that have made implementing an effective...
June 10th, 2020Responding to growing body of evidence pointing towards obesity as a major risk factor for coronavirus, there have been calls for a rapid expansion in NHS-funded weight loss surgery in the UK.
The Daily Telegraph reports that in a study of nearly...
June 10th, 2020The coronavirus pandemic will potentially create a backlog of approximately 150,000 surgical procedures, taking almost two years to eradicate, write professors Bruce Biccard and Lydia Cairncross of the University of Cape Town in Daily...
June 3rd, 2020South Africa leads the continent in many ways and right now it is poised to lead Africa into the next, most dangerous phase of the pandemic, as the country braces itself for a dramatic rise in infections that will almost certainly overwhelm its...
June 3rd, 2020Business Day asks whether the Western Cape's dire COVID-19 statistics are skewed by its testing protocols or whether the province is experiencing a qualitatively different epidemic from the rest of SA.
Western Cape hospitals, at the epicentre of...
June 3rd, 2020There is still not a shred of real proof that the planet's reckless stay-at-home experiment made any difference, writes Shirelle Jacobs in The Daily Telegraph.
Jacobs writes: “We have detonated the global economy to pursue a lockdown experiment...
June 3rd, 2020In hindsight, Norway's political and health leaders say that they might have achieved the same effects and avoided some of the unfortunate impacts by not locking down, but by instead keeping open but with infection control measures.
No one doubts...
June 3rd, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has created a national crisis in South Africa, requiring a State of Disaster to be enforced. As frontline clinicians and public health specialists at the forefront of this crisis, we signal an urgent need for a course...
June 3rd, 2020It’s increasingly clear that Venezuela’s regime is using the pandemic to strengthen its hold on power, writes Stephania Taladrid for The New Yorker.
The New Yorker reports on COVID-19’s impact on Venezuela’s already devastated economy and...
May 27th, 2020
As the coronavirus death toll has risen around the world, it has created an unprecedented challenge for the healthcare workers, forensics experts, and funeral directors who manage the bodies, reports Medscape. The dead piled up in the streets of...
May 27th, 2020
The purpose of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) declaration is timely evidence-based action to limit emerging disease risks, write David Durrheim, Laurence Gostin and Keymanthri Moodley in The Lancet. Yet the process often...
May 20th, 2020
A small but significant number of people are suffering from the “long tail” form of the virus, with “constantly shifting and bizarre symptoms”, writes Paul Garner, professor of infectious diseases at the Liverpool School of Tropical...
May 20th, 2020
Risk is integral to every activity, notes an analysis in the Daily Telegraph. So how does coronavirus compare to the dangers posed by everyday living in the UK?
Just how risky is a low level of coronavirus in the community compared with the...
May 20th, 2020
As African policymakers wrestle with how to respond to COVID-19, it is fitting that the US, the wealthiest country in the world, should offer insight for Africa – the world’s least developed region, writes Zachary Donnenfeld of the Institute of...
May 20th, 2020
A Oxford University study recently found that the spread of COVID-19 was “too fast to be contained by manual contact tracing”, writes Sean welsh in Quilette. The authors therefore make the case for mandatory use of a contact tracing app....
May 20th, 2020
The COVID-19 modelling that sent Britain into lockdown, shutting the economy and leaving millions unemployed, has been slammed by a series of experts. The Daily Telegraph reports that Professor Neil Ferguson's computer coding was derided as...
