Respiratory viruses are both unpredictable and commonplace. The name of the most well-known one, Influenza, originated in 15th century Italy, and comes from the old Italian expression influenza dei pianeti or influence of the planets. They could not explain its sudden and unaccountable behavior and ascribed its capricious nature to the influence of planets. However, influenza is just …
The UK’s irrational approach to the pandemic put the most vulnerable in harm’s way. The High Court has found that government decisions on care homes in England, made in March and April 2020, were unlawful, because policies failed to account for the risk to elderly and vulnerable care-home residents from asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19. Read More …
COVID-19 led to the provision of substantial funds intended to sustain various parts of UK society during the first part of the Covid 19 pandemic. The report is in three parts. The first summarises the publicly funded schemes available; the second part provides an overview of the main bodies overseeing public finance. The third details …
We included 44 new RCTs and cluster‐RCTs in this update, bringing the total number of randomised trials to 67. There were no included studies conducted during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Six ongoing studies were identified, of which three evaluating masks are being conducted concurrent with the COVID pandemic, and one is completed. Many studies were conducted …
Tom is currently developing a Hierarchical Framework for Assessing Transmission Causality of Respiratory Viruses: Focus on SARS-CoV-2 Access The Poster
