April 14th, 2021The world is divided about the Swedish “light touch” approach to COVID-19, seeing it either a a triumph of good sense or disastrous misstep, writes Mallory Pickett...
Is the acknowledged decline in hospital trauma admissions during the various lockdowns a result of the ban on alcohol, restrictions on people’s movement or a...
February 17th, 2021Despite the glimmer of light and hope at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, the situation remains serious, and both clinicians and healthcare systems appear to be stretched...
October 21st, 2020Professor David Nabarro, the world’s highest-ranking expert on COVID-19, has said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) does not advocate lockdowns, since their...
September 2nd, 2020Peru remains in the grips of what may be the most intense COVID-19 outbreak in the world. Officially, there have been more than 28,000 deaths, in a population of 31m....
August 26th, 2020Travel writer Oliver Smith describes in The Daily Telegraph some of the more idiotic rules and regulations introduced worldwide in the name of science. And yes, South...
The health benefits of maintaining routine childhood vaccination programmes in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic far outweigh the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission that...
July 22nd, 2020A 35-nation study found that countries headed by women leaders had six-fold fewer deaths from COVID-19 compared to those with male leadership.
A thought-provoking...
Results of an analysis has found that Black individuals were twice as likely as White individuals to test positive for COVID-19. The average age of all participants in...Medico-Legal
A new draft report by the African Peer Review Mechanism on governance during COVID-19 assesses the impact of lockdowns and states of disaster or emergency during the...
