What the world and our health systems and societies look like in the future depends on the meaning(s) we take from this pandemic, and in turn how we collectively respond Before the pandemic, we were living in a scandalously unequal world in which one per cent owned as m...

There is growing evidence that climatic factors could influence the evolution of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we build on this evidence base, focusing on the southern hemisphere summer and autumn period. The relationship between climatic factors and COVID-19 cas...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>Little is known about the long-term course of symptoms for mild coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) when accounting for symptoms due to other causes. We aimed to compare symptoms day b...

I wanted to take this moment to look through the lens of disaster psychiatry and see what lessons can be learned to inform us during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, how are disasters are defined in t...

General practice has not just remained open during the COVID-19 pandemic but responded with extraordinary agility and speed. This is not surprising as one of the key strengths of our speciality is its ability to adapt and innovate. We have a long track record of doing s...

Abstract Objective With the current SARS-CoV2 outbreak, countless tests need to be performed on potential symptomatic individuals, contacts and travellers. The gold standard is a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)–based system taking several hours to confirm ...