ASTHMA and COVID-19 For people with asthma, ensure that your asthma is as stable as possible. This means taking your inhaled steroids and other routine medications regularly as prescribed. Having a relieving inhaler is also important if your asthma...
Loss of Taste and Loss of Smell Early and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 infection is paramount. Clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 is complicated as patients present with an influenza like illness. The definitive diagnosis relies on a positive PCR swab from the...
Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Against Coronavirus Disease, Do They Work? What Evidence is There? A study performed in Hong Kong looked at the use of aggressive public health measures including massive mobility restrictions, universal fever screenings in all...
Coronavirus Lockdown – The Way Forward A proposal in the Lancet Journal by Julian Dopito of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: We as a population are being offered alternating periods of lockdown and relaxation of restrictions during this...
Wearing Facemasks The WHO has shown inconsistency in their initial guidance on whether these should be worn. In January 2020 the WHO did not recommend the mass wearing of masks in healthy individuals within the community as a way to prevent infection of...
COVID TESTING AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF IMMUNITY AND THE RESULTS Let us start with the basics. SensitivityThis is the ability of the test to detect the immune protection. If 100 patients have immunity and the test is positive in 90 of them, then it has a 90%...
