Covid-19: why is the UK government ignoring WHO’s advice?

@article{Pollock2020Covid19WI,
  title={Covid-19: why is the UK government ignoring WHO’s advice?},
  author={Allyson M Pollock and Peter Roderick and Kk Cheng and Bharat Pankhania},
  journal={BMJ},
  year={2020},
  volume={368}
}
Testing and tracing must resume urgently 
View on BMJ
bmj.com
46 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
1
Background Citations
11

46 Citations

The primary care response to COVID-19 in England's National Health Service
TLDR
During this time of turbulence with radical changes implemented in a very short period of time, this system of funding has provided financial stability for general practices, something that is not the case for many primary care practices in the USA or elsewhere.
Cost-effectiveness of future lockdown policies against the COVID-19 pandemic
  • A. Gandjour
  • Medicine, Political Science
    Health services management research
  • 2022
TLDR
In this exemplary scenario, a future lockdown policy appears to be cost-effective if the probability of approving a variant-adapted vaccine booster with an efficacy of 95% is at least 48%.
The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France
This paper argues that the current COVID-19 pandemic reveals and in a sense crystallizes a series of long-standing tensions about sovereignty that have become increasingly salient in the advanced…
Reporting COVID-19 preprints: fast science in newspapers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the pace of science. Many scientific data are published on preprint repositories, prior to peer review, which raises questions about the credibility of the…
Covid-19: Fatal errors, not fatalism, created UK’s public health disaster
Not everything is as it seems: Digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements
How to understand a COVID-19 test result
Across the world, there has been a clamour for COVID-19 testing, with the director general of the World Health Organization encouraging countries to “test, test, test”. The availability of the…
Communicating the “Race” for the COVID-19 Vaccine: An Exploratory Study in Newspapers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil
TLDR
This exploratory study used computer-assisted content analysis techniques to identify the most addressed terms, semantic clusters, actors, institutions, and countries in the texts and titles of 716 articles on the COVID-19 vaccine published by The New York Times, The Guardian, and Folha de São Paulo from January to October 2020.
Factors Associated with the Implementation of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for Reducing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Systematic Review
  • K. Regmi, C. Lwin
  • Medicine
    International journal of environmental research and public health
  • 2021
TLDR
It is highlighted that the effectiveness of NPIs in isolation is likely to be limited, therefore, a combination of multiple measures e.g., SD, isolation and quarantine, and workplace distancing appeared more effective in reducing COVID-19.
Access to Maternal Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Indigent Mothers and Health Care Providers in Kilifi County, Kenya
TLDR
It emerged that expectant mothers feared attending hospitals for perinatal care due to the possibility of contracting COVID-19, and there was an increase in home deliveries with the assistance of traditional birth attendants/traditional midwives, who were also overwhelmed with women who sought their services.
...
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 10 REFERENCES
Early Report on the Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak in Neurosurgical Practice Among Members of the Latin American Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand
Neil M Ferguson, Daniel Laydon, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Natsuko Imai, Kylie Ainslie, Marc Baguelin, Sangeeta Bhatia, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Zulma Cucunubá, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Amy Dighe, Ilaria…
Technical guidance for laboratory testing of 2019-nCoV infection (Third Edition)
  • Biosafety and Health
  • 2020
Covert coronavirus, chaos prize and the cost of contact-tracing
  • Physics
    Nature
  • 2020
TLDR
The latest science news, in brief, focuses on climate change, where scientists are increasingly concerned with the impact of natural disasters and the role that science can play in this process.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Surveillance and Containment Measures for the First 100 Patients with COVID-19 in Singapore — January 2–February 29, 2020
TLDR
Rapid identification and isolation of cases, quarantine of close contacts, and active monitoring of other contacts have been effective in suppressing expansion of the outbreak and have implications for other countries experiencing outbreaks.
Evolving Epidemiology and Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on the Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China
TLDR
Considerable countermeasures have effectively controlled the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, and special efforts are needed to protect vulnerable populations, including healthcare workers, elderly and children.
Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan: Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing.
TLDR
Taiwan is an example of how a society can respond quickly to a crisis and protect the interests of its citizens in the face of an emerging epidemic.
Efficacy of contact tracing for the containment of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
TLDR
The current contact tracing strategy within the UK is likely to identify a sufficient proportion of infected individuals such that subsequent spread could be prevented, although the ultimate success will depend on the rapid detection of cases and isolation of contacts.
Reflections on the UK's approach to the 2009 swine flu pandemic: conflicts between national government and the local management of the public health response.
The countries with the most critical care beds per capita
  • Forbes
  • 2020