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...
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-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...
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...
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...
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...
