Tagged: COVID-19

Featured image: Beating the evolving COVID-19 pandemic – unprecedented human collaboration in discovery and innovation

Beating the evolving COVID-19 pandemic – unprecedented human collaboration in discovery and innovation - Diplomatic Immunity

Helen Petousis Harris • Feb 26, 2020 •

Less than two months after China told the WHO there was a problem, a lot has happened. Sadly, deaths, confirmed cases and countries affected are increasing every day. However, on a scientific and medical level, what is going on to contain, cure and prevent this new disease is truly inspirational. Let’s look at the build-up to this global health emergency … Read More

Featured image: Coronavirus update: spread outside China and a new name

Coronavirus update: spread outside China and a new name - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Feb 16, 2020 •

With over 69,000 confirmed cases and 1,600 deaths, here’s your round-up of the latest coronavirus news. New disease and virus have now officially been named On the 11th February, the WHO Director General announced a new name for the disease: COVID-19 which is short for coronavirus disease 2019. The naming follows the WHO’s commitment not to call diseases after … Read More

Featured image: The numbers are the numbers, except when they’re not.

The numbers are the numbers, except when they’re not. - Physics Stop

Marcus Wilson • Feb 14, 2020 •

I’m not quite sure of what to make of the new figures for COVID-19 (as we must now call the novel coronavirus – though I’m not sure the capitalisation is correct) from Hubei province: Image from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51495484  The spike yesterday is a consequence of a using a different way of defining a case – one based on a clinical diagnosis (i.e. Read More

Featured image: Getting Through Together: Ethical Values for a Pandemic

Getting Through Together: Ethical Values for a Pandemic - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Feb 14, 2020 •

Ruth Cunningham, Charlotte Paul, Andrew Moore Public health responses to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 require us to draw on our common humanity and be explicit about our values. Recognising this will help us make good decisions in difficult situations so that, for example, the need to impose restrictive measures and to protect ourselves does not conflict with fairness, respect, … Read More

Featured image: What’s in a name? Why the coronavirus needed its own

What’s in a name? Why the coronavirus needed its own - Lately, In Science

Sarah-Jane O'Connor • Feb 12, 2020 •

As of today, the novel coronavirus spreading in China is called COVID-19. Why does it matter? Around the office, we’ve had several conversations over the past few weeks about how 2019-nCoV needed its own name. First, it was getting annoying calling it by the above designation, and ‘novel coronavirus’ doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue either. And it was … Read More