Boris Johnson indicated in his prime ministerial news conference on Saturday that within a very few days, there was going to be a mass testing of the whole population. This is clearly a major undertaking but let’s look and see whether it is being done in any...
This editorial in The Lancet published November 5 looks at this vexing issue. The editorial suggests that the UK Government’s consideration of young people in its COVID-19 response has been inadequate and some eight months into the pandemic it argues that it is...
Does wearing a facemask cause a decline in oxygen saturation in adults over 65? An article published by Chan, Lee and Hirsch in the Journal of the American Medical Association, October 30, 2020 looked at this vaccine question. Participants self-measured peripheral...
An interesting preprint on Medrxiv looked at this vexing question. Harvey and others look at the longitudinal monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on high touch surfaces in a community setting. They conducted longitudinal swab sampling of high touch non-porous...
An interesting preprint published by Miron and others in Medrxiv retrospectively examined COVID-19 incidence in 20 countries that held mass gathering rallies in the USA in August to September 2020. They were compared to the rest of the United States’ counties. ...
A preprint in Medrxiv by a Dutch group looked at five commercially available rapid antigen essays on samples from 1754 people who had already tested positive for the coronavirus with a standard PCR test, which is sensitive, but slow. The two most sensitive...
