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Adventures of a Sick Doctor

We are aware that many of the people who have died from Covid19 around the world have been healthcare workers. Ideally, every encounter between a healthcare professional and a patient right now would be carried out in the correct PPE. Surely there's no need to go wasting precious resources for that?

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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.