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  1. Content Article
    This World Health Organization (WHO) report highlights the public health impact of sepsis, with a particular focus on specific populations and those seeking healthcare, and we propose future directions and priorities in sepsis epidemiology research. Sepsis has many faces and can be a life-threatening condition, but it is potentially preventable and reversible. Research and policy-makers must be ready to forge partnerships to stimulate funding and help place sepsis more firmly on the list of critical health conditions to target in the pursuit of universal health coverage.
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    How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mite has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom. Ed Yong in an article in The Atlantic highlights how despite ample warnings the country was unprepared for a pandemic, and suggests it remains unprepared for the next one.
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    It is hypothesized that 90% of antibiotic allergies documented in patients’ health records are not actual, potentially life threatening, type I allergies. This distinction is important because such documentation increases antibiotic resistance, as more second-choice and broad-spectrum antibiotics are then used. Evidence is lacking regarding causes of this inappropriate documentation. To develop interventions aimed at improving documentation, the authors of this study, published in the Annals of Family Medicine, explored experiences of family physicians and pharmacists in this area. They found that the professionals involved perceived that antibiotic allergy documentation is seldom accurate, which may contribute to development of antibiotic resistance, increased costs, and decreased patient safety.
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    In this blog from the BMJ, Scarlett McNally, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Eastbourne District General Hospital, argues that getting older and becoming frail are two different things; frailty can usually be prevented with exercise.   She goes on to say, "we cannot afford for 1 in 4 people across the UK population to do no exercise at all. We cannot afford a decade of social care for every person in the country. And we cannot afford the misery and costs of so many people getting illnesses that might never have happened. Resigning ourselves to these fates cannot remain 'normal'.” 
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    This commentary from Michael Fraser shares recommendations for leaders to meet COVID-19 stressors successfully. The article suggests leaders communicate well, be decisive, lead without hierarchy, remain proactive and take care of themselves to protect others.
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    This data snapshot from Santoli et al. highlights the results of an examination of two data sets (Jan to April 2019 and Jan to April 2020) to assess the impact of the pandemic on pediatric vaccination in the United States. The authors found significant vaccination declines and highlight the importance of childhood vaccination to prevent future disease outbreaks.
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    In the midst of the COVIS-19 lockdown, this article, published in Diagnosis, critically assesses the most important undesirable effects of prolonged homestay such as physical inactivity, weight gain, behavioral addiction disorders, insufficient sunlight exposure and social isolation. The authors also aim to provide some tentative recommendations for the alleviation of side effects.
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    On 4 May 2020, a 13-strong committee convened by former UK government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir David King discussed some aspects of the science behind the UK strategy in a two and a half hour meeting. Leading experts in public health, epidemiology, primary care, virology, mathematical modelling, and social and health policy, raised ideas and issues for consideration which are shared in this report. The report does not aim to critique such work. Rather, it recognises that such solutions will take time and will still require an appropriate public health infrastructure to maximise their benefit. This is the focus of this first report and the meeting aimed to offer some constructive ideas to the governments of the UK and the devolved nations about how best to tackle this crisis, to save lives, suppress the coronavirus and get the economy moving again.
  9. Content Article
    The novel coronavirus began circulating in China in December 2019. The number of confirmed cases and deaths from this pneumonia-like condition are rising. This page is where all BMJ coverage of the coronavirus outbreak can be found. All articles and resources are freely available.
  10. Content Article
    The World Health Organization has produced a list of questions and answers to help provide the public with accurate information on the coronavirus.
  11. Content Article
    The World Health Organization has produced a number of resources, in response to the coronavirus outbreak, to help members of the public know when they should wear a mask and how to put on, use, take off and dispose of a mask.
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    Below is a list of key websites for anyone looking to access up-to-date information and guidance on the coronavirus pandemic. 
  13. Content Article
    A list of guides that help to explain the coronavirus outbreak in an easy read format. Resources include those specifically designed for people with Downs Syndrome and learning disabilities. These guides and posters will help families, care providers and hospital staff communicate messages inclusively. 
  14. Content Article
    A novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (formerly called HCoV-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and is now causing a pandemic. The authors of this research, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, analysed the aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 and compared it with SARS-CoV-1, the most closely related human coronavirus.
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    This guidance is for people, including children, who are at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) because of an underlying health condition, and for their family, friends and carers. It is intended for use in situations where the extremely vulnerable person is living in their own home, with or without additional support. This includes the extremely clinically vulnerable people living in long-term care facilities, either for the elderly or persons with special needs. Shielding is a measure to protect people who are clinically extremely vulnerable by minimising all interaction between those who are extremely vulnerable and others. We are strongly advising people with serious underlying health conditions (listed below) which put them at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) to rigorously follow shielding measures in order to keep themselves safe.
  16. Content Article
    NICE has published its first three rapid guidelines on the care of people with suspected and confirmed COVID-19, and in patients without COVID-19. These guidelines have been developed to maximise patient safety whilst making the best use of NHS resources and protecting staff from infection. The guideline has been developed using the interim process and methods for developing rapid guidelines on COVID-19 and recommendations are based on evidence and expert opinion. COVID-19 rapid guideline: critical care COVID-19 rapid guideline: delivery of systemic anticancer treatments COVID-19 rapid guideline: dialysis service delivery.
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    This article, published by The Lancet, is written by Dale fisher, Chair of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) and Annelies Wilder-Smith, co-Chair of the Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission on Preparedness for Emerging Epidemic Threats. They highlight the urgent public health action required in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
  18. Content Article
    A blog by the National Institutes of Health Director, Dr. Francis Collins, highlighting relevant research that shows how important it is for everyone to comply with social distancing advice. The National Institutes of Health is a US based, government organisation.
  19. Content Article
    An animated video explaining the science behind the coronovirus, how it affects the human body and what you should do.
  20. Content Article
    This video, from US news channel abc6, shows a nurse on the front line expressing a dire need for protective gear to help keep the most vulnerable out of the hospitals. The Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice is calling on Governor Mike DeWine to act now.
  21. Content Article
    This webpage from Scope provides up to date information about how coronovirus is impacting on their service provision. Content includes information on Scope's: service changes shop closures the Scope helpline the Scope online community.
  22. Content Article
    Are you a patient with an issue not related to the coronavirus, and yet facing new challenges because of it? Understandably the healthcare system is currently focusing its attention on the deadly effects of the coronavirus, so the need to pay attention to patient safety is now more important than ever. We’re asking for patients, carers, family members and friends to share their stories, highlight weaknesses or safety issues that need to be addressed and share solutions that are working.
  23. Content Article
    In a blog published in the Guardian, Kathryn Hearn says the UK government’s treatment of the coronavirus outbreak has in effect written off all of us with health issues. The language used by officials describing the spiralling scenarios risks dehumanising us, and makes us feel we no longer matter, Kathryn explains. NHS England’s latest report on the health of the nation acknowledged that 43% of adults – that’s nearly 20 million people – ­­­are living with at least one long-term health condition. Although not all of those would be directly in danger from Covid-19, there’s still a major section of our society who will be. You’ll know somebody, for sure. Until Monday’s U-turn, the UK government’s policy was to manage rather than to contain the virus - which would have allowed close to a quarter of a million people to die. Allowing Covid-19 to spread throughout the population in the hope of building some “herd immunity” among the youngest, fittest and healthiest "felt irresponsible at best, and callous at worst". 
  24. Content Article
    This article in the Washington Post simply describes COVID-19, how it spreads and how extensive social distancing helps.
  25. Content Article
    Guidance from the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service about visiting prisons during the coronavirus outbreak.
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