An interesting comment by Chris T Bauch in The Lancet Infectious Diseases published October 22, 2020 looked at this point. The basic reproduction number (R0) is the average number of infections produced by a single infectious person in a population with no...
An interesting article by Moutier in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry October 16, 2020 discusses this topic. Moutier suggests that suicide was a leading cause of death with devastating emotional and societal costs prior to the COVID-19...
An interesting abstract by Poirer in Nature looks at this in detail. Influenza studies have shown that influenza viruses survive longer on surfaces or in droplets in cold and dry air, thus increasing the likelihood of subsequent transmission. A...
A letter published in The Lancet October 22 by Graham Medley looks at the term which he feels has become layered with political interpretations, label strategies, and feels that they are not clearly defined. It is hoped that at some time shortly there will be a...
The British Medical Journal published 14 October 2020 looked into this. They reviewed the National Institute for Health research paper published on 15 October 2020. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation in March 2020. It has had...
An interesting article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association October 13 by Jennifer Abbasi suggested that nose and throat swab polymerase chain reaction testing could miss up to 50% of COVID-19 cases. This is due in part because the...
