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Coronavirus and Glasses
COVID and Eye Glasses; Should one Wear Glasses in order to PreventCOVID-19 Infection? An interesting article in the Journal of American Medical Associations Ophthalmology report by Xang and others published September 16 looked at the association between daily wearing...
Coronavirus and Mental Health
The Association Between Mental Illness and Covid-19 Susceptibility An interesting article published in September 2020 in The Lancet Psychiatry by Professor Juan Lee and others looked at the evidence of the associations between mental illness and the likelihood of a...
Face Masks and COVID
Facemasks, Should they be Washed after every use and How Often? Facemasks have become a necessity in the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic. It is now illegal to be on public transport, be in a taxi, be in an Uber or be in a public place without wearing a...
COVID a Gobal Perspective
COVID-19 A Global Perspective The Gates Foundation gives us a perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic. This is in both human terms, country terms, worldwide terms and economic terms. COVID-19 has killed more than 850,000 people. It has plunged the world...
COVID Testing what is new?
Testing for SARS-CoV-2, What is New COVID Nudge Our friends at Imperial describe their novel, lab free, point of care test for SARS-CoV-2 known as COVID nudge in The Lancet September 17. This was based on work done by Gibani and Toumazou. Between...
Coronavirus – A Cure?
COVID-19, Can it be Cured? An interesting editorial in The Lancet Infectious Diseases published September 10, 2020 reflects on this question and helps to provide answers. As the COVID-19 pandemic moves into its tenth month, there is a greater patient survival which...
Will there be a second wave?
COVID-19 and Influenza, Will there be a Double Epidemic? A news article in The Lancet reviewed this double whammy. Vijay Balakrishnan reviewed and considered the evidence for this. As I discussed last week, the WHO reported that the worldwide circulation of...
When did COVID start?
When did SARS-CoV-2 become established in Europe and North America? An interesting study by Worobey and others published in Science 10 September 2020 looks at the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in both Europe and North America. They conclude that rapid early...
Coronavirus and Gender
Sex Differences in the Immune Response to COVID-19 Why do men appear to suffer differently to women when exposed to SARS-CoV-2? Why are men more likely to be hospitalised and die? An interesting article by Dr Takehiro Takahashi and others published in Nature 26...
COVID and School Closures
Did Closing Down Schools Decrease COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality? An interesting article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, published online July 29, 2020, reviewed the association between school closure and the reduction of spread of...
