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- Democracy was tested this week. The evidence for the health benefits of democracy is well established, but democracies are being eroded or “autocratised.” Presidents and ruling cabals use democracy to gain power and then abuse democracy to retain it…. Kamran Abbasi
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- Liverpool will this week become the first city in England to roll out mass testing of its population for covid-19. Gareth Iacobucci
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- Concerns have been raised over the UK government’s claims that it will begin rolling out rapid covid-19 tests within days to whole cities to “help people discover whether or not they are infectious” and to allow them entry to certain places or events…. Elisabeth Mahase
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- You’re not the only medic in search of a breather. A 2019 survey of 4000 British and Irish emergency department doctors found that their median need for recovery (NFR) score was 70—against an average score of between 36 and 44 reported in the literature…. Zosia Kmietowicz
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- New national measures to try to stem the rising number of cases of covid-19 in England will come into force on 5 November, as the government conceded that the surge in cases and hospital admissions now threatened to breach NHS capacity. Zosia Kmietowicz
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- The second covid-19 wave could last until April and see 85 000 people die from the virus in the UK, making it more deadly than the first wave, a modelling study has found. Elisabeth Mahase
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- The Nightingale hospital in Manchester is open and ready to admit patients from across the north west of England. But, in a surprising twist, it is only admitting patients who do not have covid-19. Ingrid Torjesen
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- A total of 338 patients with a diagnosis of covid-19 were discharged from Scottish hospitals into care homes in the three months from March this year, says a report from Public Health Scotland. Bryan Christie
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- Documents leaked to the Good Law Project appear to show special pathways through which “VIPs” and Cabinet Office contacts were able to win contracts to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) at the height of the covid-19 pandemic. Clare Dyer
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- A pro-choice protester in Krakow holds a coat hanger as a symbol of the dangers to women of the near total ban on abortions imposed by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal last month. Alison Shepherd
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- From acute delirium to long term fatigue, covid-19 has serious neuropsychiatric effects Matthew Butler, Thomas A Pollak et al
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- A rare opportunity for public scrutiny of these key trials Peter Doshi
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- Never has the role of chief medical officer (CMO) been under such scrutiny. In a rare interview, England’s CMO speaks to The BMJ’s editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, about the pandemic and what it’s like to be a physician in Whitehall Fiona Godlee, Mun-Keat Looi
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