Redeploying medical students and trainees is one of the steps that are needed immediately to relieve pressure on the NHS as hospitals struggle to deal with staff absences, the organisation that represents trusts has said. The NHS Confederation has also called for the self-isolation period for ...
moderate disease, or 15–20 days with severe illness. This applies to any attendance for hospital services. Those who are severely immunocompromised (online Supporting Information Appendix S1) may need specialist advice on duration of self-isolation. Of note, PCR positivity does not correlate with s...
For education, many governments consider increasing access to education as a main strategy for Human capital development [49]. However, with the onset of COVID-19, many children have dropped out of school [50,51], and many could not return to the classroom as their parents have lost their ...
Temperature checks, handwashing, social distancing. Isolation, tests, tracking close contacts. Those working in schools know the drills around Covid-19 better than most. When it comes to the prevention of infection - and the response in the immediate aftermath of a suspected or confirmed case -...
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The latest COVID-19 advice from the NHS (including how to book a test) can be found here. Guidance from the Local Authority, including information about self-isolation can be found here, as well as a summary leaflet. In accordance with DfE requirements, we have produced a statement of Rem...
Patients with cancer have a higher risk of severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and associated mortality than the general population. Owing to this increased risk, patients with cancer have been prioritized for COVID-19 vaccination globally, for both primary and booster vaccinations. However, given...
Both the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) with the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Guidelines on the management of critically ill adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the National Health Service of England (NHS-England) recommend the use of NIV as an ...
Mind Health (Anxiety, Self-Isolation, Working From Home) COVID-19 anxiety taking a toll? There’s a subreddit for that(The Verge) How to keep your sanity when you feel like the world is going crazy(Ars Technica) What Coronavirus Isolation Could Do to Your Mind (and Body)(Wired) ...
mental health and sustaining their social andfamily relationshipsthrough extended periods of social distancing and isolation, but have also become a battleground for competing narratives around the pandemic – with guidance from health authorities and experts often struggling for prominence with conspiracy th...