Testing Coronavirus
Total 28 Posts
WHO is right: Lockdowns should be short and sharp. Here are 4 other essential COVID-19 strategies.
4 min read
Lockdown is a good tactic in situations where COVID-19 transmission is spiralling out of control and there is a threat of the health system being overwhelmed. But it is just one of many different weapons we can deploy against the coronavirus.
Covid-19 response — Let’s talk about California.
3 min read
How California’s public health approach turned its Covid-19 outbreak around and saw coronavirus cases come back down, and how others can learn from California to battle the pandemic back too.
Let’s talk about lockdowns...
3 min read
As coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising across the United States, Dr Ashish K Jha writes: “Let’s talk about lockdowns... and how we get through the next few months.”
Why are coronavirus rates rising in some areas of England and not others?
5 min read
Areas with the highest levels of mortality in the first wave do not show a significant resurgence of cases this time around. But why?
Why COVID-19 appears to have spared Africa so far.
4 min read
Six months on, Africa is one of the regions with the least deaths attributed to coronavirus in the world. World Health Organization experts explain why this might be.
Johnson’s smirk of the union address.
6 min read
What happens when you elect someone like Boris Johnson Prime Minister? You get lies, deflection, a willingness to trash conventions and break the laws, broken promises and an undermined devolution settlement. You get a PM who blames everyone else for his own failures.
Independent SAGE draws up measures to avoid another national lockdown.
3 min read
As the UK is now facing the possibility of a second national lockdown, an independent group of scientists headed by Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK government, publishes an emergency ten point plan to avoid a second lockdown.