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Adventures of a Sick Doctor

Ideally, every encounter between a healthcare professional and a patient right now would be carried out in the correct PPE. Will a night nurse or a GP go into her house to help her to die well, wearing a full hazmat suit? Ideally, one would err on the side of caution to reduce the risks of transmission to an absolute minimum.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

Respiratory drugs, including many inhaled medications, exhibited dramatically increased prescribing during March 2020, with some evidence from the types of inhalers involved that this was driven primarily by patients with COPD rather than asthma.