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Children and COVID-19 Infection A review of papers published in Nature Journal looks at how children are affected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and their resulting symptoms with COVID-19.  The role of children in spreading the coronavirus has been a key...

COVID-19, A Complex Multisystem Clinical Syndrome A review of the COVID-19 infection and a look at presentation and complications.  A helpful article in The BMJ of 1 May 2020 by Dr Michael Roberts and others helps us to assess this complex clinical syndrome. The...

Paediatric Multi-Symptom Inflammatory Syndrome This is a syndrome which is believed to be linked to COVID-19.  A 5-year-old boy in New York became the first child in the United States to die from this condition.  A 14-year-old boy in the United Kingdom has...

Has New Zealand Eliminated COVID-19? This came from a world report in The Lancet dated May 9, 2020.  An aggressive approach has enabled New Zealand to end community transmission of SARS-CoV-2.  New Zealand recorded its first day of no new cases of...

COVID-19, A Complex Multisystem Clinical Syndrome A review and understand the COVID-19 infection and to look at presentation and complications.  A helpful article in The BMJ of 1 May 2020 by Dr Michael Roberts and others helps us to assess this complex clinical...

DOES THE UNITED KINGDOM REALLY HAVE THE MOST CORONAVIRUS DEATHS IN EUROPE?  BUT IS IT A FAIR COMPARISON? An interesting article in the Huffington Post contested that the UK has now paid the highest price in Europe for coronavirus, overtaking Italy as the European...

The London General Practice is pleased to announce the launch of it's COVID-19 Antibody Test which sits alongside it's existing PCR Swab test for the virus itself. The Practice has chosen the Abbott Antibody test, a blood test undertaken in the Laboratory, based on...

THE TWO METRE RULE, SOCIAL DISTANCING, WHERE DOES IT COME FROM? Government ministers are considering whether to relax the two metre rule social distancing in workplaces.  Clearly, this would make it easier for people to get back to jobs where it is not always...

COVID-19 immunity passports and vaccination certificates; scientific, equitable and legal challenges This was a comment by Alexandra Phelan published May 4, 2020 in the Lancet.  There is clearly urgency for relaxing social distancing and isolation measures which...

Safeguarding cancer care in the post COVID-19 world From an interesting editorial in the Lancet Oncology Journal May 2020.  During this COVID-19 pandemic it would appear that cancer care has been de-prioritised, delayed and even discontinued.  This decision will...