MAKING SENSE OF COVID-19

As the UK begins to ease its lockdown we are hearing more about the programme of “Track and Trace” that will be implemented in an attempt...

UPDATE 29 May 2020 The situation in Denmark remains reassuringly stable after analysis of their data for the last five weeks showed no...

UPDATE 29 May 2020 Yesterday (28 May) the Financial Times ran an article with the headline "UK suffers second-highest death rate from...

Test, test, test is becoming the new mantra. It has been identified as one of the five key steps the government wants in place before it...

Throughout this pandemic one source of comfort to many parents has been that the coronavirus seems to be sparing children with under 18s...

At each government briefing we are told the daily death toll from COVID-19 across the hospitals of the UK. However in the background...

UPDATE 24 June 2020 The total number of confirmed cases across the continent is now 328,995 with 8,683 reported deaths. There are pieces...

Concern is growing that early evidence suggests people from the BAME community (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) are disproportionately...

I have been asked many times for my opinion on how and when the UK lockdown will end. The honest answer is "I don't know" but here are...

I do not like to dwell too much on the many fake and scare mongering stories doing the rounds on social media as I don't wish to give...

16 April 2020 UPDATE This video released today by the BBC gives a useful synopsis on mask wearing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-5...

UPDATE 21 April 2020 From today's Downing Street Press Briefing: Oxford University researchers will begin human trials of a potential...

UPDATE 25 May 2020 In Asia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are seeing exponential rises in their number of new cases and deaths each day...

As figures and data are released each day, many are citing Germany and South Korea as exemplary in their handling of the pandemic and are...

As the pandemic continues the terms “the R0” (pronounced R nought) or the “R number” are being used in briefings and reports on the...

UPDATE 25 May 2020 Annika Linde, the former state epidemiologist for Sweden, has withdrawn her support on the country’s lockdown...

The following message has started being shared on social media purporting to be from a Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University....

UPDATE 10 June 2020 The USA now has a total of 2,056,561 cases and 114, 678 deaths. Adjusting for population size the USA has more cases...

You are encouraged to download this symptom tracker app designed by doctors and scientists at King's College London, Guys and St Thomas’...

UPDATE 23 April 2020 Studies released this week in the USA and France have shown that hydroxyochloroquine is not an effective treatment...