Secondly, pragmatically, some activities require more person-time to complete than others do. Finally, modelling suggests that over 80% of contacts need to be promptly traced and quarantined for an outbreak to be controlled . Of note, in a high performing system, contact tracing reduces the average time from the development of symptoms to testing in […]
that our recommendations can be used as a foundation to build much needed rehabilitation services for those patients requiring support in regaining optimal occupational and physical function. The statement is intended to be of particular use not only for those planning for delivery of rehabilitation services at a population level but also for those working […]
risk children have been at home, suggesting that school is a safer place. a. If children are driving the spread of the virus, infections will probably spike in the next few weeks in countries where children have already returned to school” stated one researcher but no spike has been seen based on the Danish data. […]
the same all over the world as far as GPs involvement in decision making. In the state where I work, to control the present Covid pandemic, the Govt has released many guidelines but it looks as if that no private practicing GP was involved at all in decision making. For example, reporting of ILI/SARI/Suspected COVID […]
reopen schools’. While it is true to state that the iSAGE report shows that ‘the risk to children would be halved if the restart date of schools was delayed by two weeks’, this statement is meaningless if the actual risk is not stated. The most significant change for the majority of children has been the […]
guidance around the legality of isolation in mental health units needs to be addressed before we are presented with an entirely different crisis. The implications for the ward and management extend beyond the COVID symptomatic individual. others on the ward, who have been sharing direct contact , should be quarantined for the two-week period. However, […]
also believe that the United States needs to critically reflect on its own role in the performance of WHO and willingness to build systems that would have supported response to a pandemic like COVID-19. We also agree that the dues structure for core funding of WHO could use revision, but we argue that there is […]
throat, bronchitis, pneumonia, diarrhea, and conjunctivitis, much like the COVID-19 . As such, cross-reactivity against coronaviruses has recently been demonstrated by connecting human ACE2 to immunoglobulin IgG1 . But, unfortunately, on the sad side is the fact that ACE2 expression mediates both in infections by coronaviruses and influenza A , and could pose a higher […]
evidence as the IDSA but reached different conclusions regarding the strength of that evidence. In our view, their inflation of the strength of the evidence cannot be supported. We are not outliers in determining that the evidence quality was low or very low; other GRADE-based assessments, including the exquisitely detailed National Institute for Health and […]
judgements. I note this article has not been externally peer-reviewed, thus arguable, had it gone through such scrutiny, it may not have met the threshold for publication. Finally, I disagree with the suggestion, “health professionals could have helped her better prepare for this lack of independence”, as the whole basis of this piece is on […]