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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...

COVID-19 and the Use of Antihypertensive Drugs Known As the ACE2 Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Known As Arbs  This has become a highly contentious topic during this COVID-19 pandemic.  Initially there existed no evidence...

COVID-19 came from China; Can We Use Chinese Herbal Medicines to Treat COVID-19? An interesting correspondence from The Lancet expands further on this.  Chinese officials announced at a press conference on April 14, 2020 that three patent herbal drugs had been...

So What Are The Risk Factors and Identifying Demographics for Testing Positive to SARS-CoV-2?  A study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases by the Oxford Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre looked at patients who were...

Children and COVID-19 Infection A review of papers published in Nature Journal looks at how children are affected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and their resulting symptoms with COVID-19.  The role of children in spreading the coronavirus has been a key...

COVID-19, A Complex Multisystem Clinical Syndrome A review of the COVID-19 infection and a look at presentation and complications.  A helpful article in The BMJ of 1 May 2020 by Dr Michael Roberts and others helps us to assess this complex clinical syndrome. The...

Paediatric Multi-Symptom Inflammatory Syndrome This is a syndrome which is believed to be linked to COVID-19.  A 5-year-old boy in New York became the first child in the United States to die from this condition.  A 14-year-old boy in the United Kingdom has...

Has New Zealand Eliminated COVID-19? This came from a world report in The Lancet dated May 9, 2020.  An aggressive approach has enabled New Zealand to end community transmission of SARS-CoV-2.  New Zealand recorded its first day of no new cases of...

COVID-19, A Complex Multisystem Clinical Syndrome A review and understand the COVID-19 infection and to look at presentation and complications.  A helpful article in The BMJ of 1 May 2020 by Dr Michael Roberts and others helps us to assess this complex clinical...

DOES THE UNITED KINGDOM REALLY HAVE THE MOST CORONAVIRUS DEATHS IN EUROPE?  BUT IS IT A FAIR COMPARISON? An interesting article in the Huffington Post contested that the UK has now paid the highest price in Europe for coronavirus, overtaking Italy as the European...