There’s something rather sinister about a potentially fatal virus that doesn’t declare its presence until a week or more after contact.
Turn of the coronatide
May 6, 2020 by
It may not be the beginning of the end, but in parts of the world that are detecting fewer cases of COVID-19, it is starting to look like the end of the beginning. Maritime metaphors are in heavy demand. Maybe it’s the thought of returning to the beach, as some have already done. The storms that have just battered southern Australia are a rough reminder that nature is unpredictable. These events can come without warning, and may return in waves. So just what is this COVID-19 second wave?
COVID-19 unplugged
April 26, 2020 by
Our physical distancing has its down side. Now that we’re starting to see modest signs of progress, it’s a good time to consider what it has achieved so far.
Logic in the time of coronavirus
April 25, 2020 by
An insight editorial in the Journal of Medical Microbiology examines COVID-19 through the prism of the priobe hypothesis, and uses it to build an argument for causality as a means of identifying key research and development priorities in the campaign against SARS coronavirus 2 (SC2).
COVID-19: the vitamin D debate
April 11, 2020 by
There is growing interest in vitamin D supplements as a low risk intervention for COVID-19. Here some of the recent debate has been captured to help you make up your own mind.
