MAKING SENSE OF COVID-19

COVID-19 could have more dire consequences in refugee camps than anywhere else in the world. The combination of a high density of people...

Herd immunity is a phrase being used more and more in relation to COVID-19. In its simplest terms it refers to a whole population having...

Oxford Vaccine There was widespread concern last week when AstraZeneca and Oxford University announced on 8 September 2020 that they were...

From March until September 2020 schools, colleges and universities had to rethink how to deliver their teaching. All educational...

For those who remember the Cold War and the Space Race between the then Soviet Union and the USA, there are striking parallels to be...

The explosion in the capital Beirut on 4 August 2020 came at a time when Lebanon was already struggling to cope with its outbreak of...

The UK has closed its air bridges with Spain and Luxembourg and warned against all but essential travel to both countries; cases of...

India's Figures India has the third highest number of cases of COVID-19 in the world after the USA and Brazil. At the time of writing,...

"UK Warned of Winter Resurgence in COVID-19" and "It'll be Over by Christmas" have been the completely contradictory headlines in the UK...

On 7 April 2020 I wrote the piece "Should I wear a Mask?" (click here to read.) At the time everybody seemed to be talking about wearing,...

Three pieces written at the beginning of the blog are reviewed and updated here. Together they show that whilst we have more insight into...

As the UK, along with most of Europe, comes slowly out of lockdown it is sobering to look back to the time when the pandemic was, with...

On 27 March 2020 I wrote a piece entitled “The USA and China...why we are watching both.” (Click here to read that piece.) Both then, and...

Since writing my first piece on Africa on 20 April 2020 (click here to read), there have now been 386,947 confirmed COVID-19 cases in...

Since writing my first piece on Africa on 20 April 2020 (click here to read), there have now been 386,947 confirmed COVID-19 cases in...

Since writing my first piece on Africa on 20 April 2020 (click here to read), there have now been 386,947 confirmed COVID-19 cases in...

In the piece “Are We Any Nearer to a COVID-19 Cure?” (click here to read) the UK Recovery Trial was cited as the largest drug trial in...

As the UK eases out of lockdown the question I have been asked many times is, “Will there be a second wave of COVID-19 infection?” Both...

UPDATE 5 June 2020 On 5 June 2020 the UK Recovery Trial withdrew hydroxychloroquine from its trial. In the wake of the ongoing...

In April I wrote a piece entitled “The Search for a Vaccine” which detailed the science behind vaccine development. At that time there...