Food insecurity. Will this be the sting in the tail following the COVID-19 pandemic? An interesting editorial in The Lancet Global Health discusses the situation in poorer countries following COVID-19 infection. UNICEF published a discussion documented on...
COVID-19 coagulopathy, the evolving story of the clotting disorders associated with COVID-19 COVID-19 has affected over 4 million people worldwide, spreading across the continents. The substantial mortality in at-risk groups is noted and also the multiple...
COVID-19 Vaccines – Have we got the capacity to develop a vaccine at rapid speed? An interesting article by Nicole Lurie and others in the New England Journal of Medicine May 21, 2020 looks at the possibility of developing a COVID-19 vaccine at pandemic speed....
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...
