COVID-19 Intensive Care Triage Protocol

Dr Daniel Sokol, a leading bioethicist and medical lawyer, has published an Intensive Care Unit triage protocol to help clinicians decide how to allocate scarce...

Discharge criteria from ECDC – COVID-19

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC has reviewed the criteria to be considered when deciding whether a confirmed COVID-19 case can be...

Public must to continue to seek medical help

Patients and the public must continue to seek medical help for serious conditions during this COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Jackie Taylor, the President of the Royal...

Pilot phase – rapid Covid-19 test

Monash University researchers are developing a Covid-19 test to rapidly diagnose active virus infection within an hour: The pilot study is up and running. Despite...

Material errors in Covid-19 modelling

Material errors in Covid-19 modelling exist because they underestimate the epidemic's peak and overestimate its duration. Many of the models being used to forecast the...

Pop-up tent to protect NHS staff

Innovative ‘pop-up tent’ could be latest line of defence for frontline NHS staff treating patients with COVID-19 A disposable plastic ‘pop-up tent’ which creates a...

Diary of Covid-19: Day 18

I should probably be writing this saying that I have said good-bye to Covid-19, but I have to admit that the virus and I seem...