After COVID-19 is an Alternative Society Possible? This comes from an interesting editorial by Richard Horton published May 30 in The Lancet. He asks how do we make sense of this pandemic? He quotes the first interpretations from Slavoj Žižek a prolific...
Lockdown Easing – Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym? The New York times looked into this and using anonymised mobile phone location data from April 2019 they measured how crowded businesses get. They found: Fast-food restaurants tended to be...
COVID-19 and a Sneeze How far can human sneeze droplets be ejected? This was measured by Lydia Bourouiba and written in the New England Journal of Medicine in August 2016. She videoed the human sneeze and measured the emission of a sneeze cloud produced by...
Vitamin D and COVID-19 As we are now just coming out of the lockdown and have been banished to our homes. What might this lack of sunlight affect? An article in The Lancet looked at whether being deficient in vitamin D resulted in a poorer outcome if...
COVID-19 and Who It Effects Severely Although some of those patients who are severely affected by Coronavirus are of an increased age and people with pre-existing health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, this is not always the case. ...
Why Are Travel Restrictions Imposed and What Is The Evidence Behind Them During This COVID-19 Crisis? This is a fundamental question and requires an evidence based answer, particularly when trade is vital to our economy. An article by Kelly Leigh and others in The...
