Covid-19 response ignores patients with rare diseases
We cannot leave vulnerable patients behind Another overlooked population in the Covid-19 pandemic is patients with rare diseases. In a BMJ blog two scientists, from...
Over-population fading as greatest moral challenge of our time
George Monbiot says that population panic is letting rich people off the hook Climate change, over-population, and a demographic winter are all competing for nomination...
Ethics committee clears BLM-supporting doctors of hypocrisy over protests
Anti-lockdown protests, however, are not justifiable No social distancing while protesting lockdowns: not OK Four American doctors and ethicists from the Society of General Internal...
With Covid-19, the world needs more ‘infodemiologists’
Combatting a crisis in medical information on the internet The job of monitoring fake health news on the internet now has a name, specialist professionals...
China accused of coercive population control over Uyghur Muslims
US Secretary of State calls it “shocking” and “disturbing” A Uyghur man at a bus in the city of Kashgar, Xinjiang, China A searing report...
Should defunding the police be a bioethics priority?
Bioethicists can help reset the way budgets are made Protests in Portland / Tito Texidor III on Unsplash In the wake of riots after the...
Big Tech hits pause button on facial recognition technology
But is it just a public relations stunt? Microsoft, IBM, Google and Amazon have all hit a “stop” or “pause” button on their facial recognition...
Trump pulls the plug on the WHO
Questions remain about whether this is possible this year The United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump has declared after months...
Unclean! Unclean!
Maskless shopper sparks panic How much of a help are masks in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Absolutely essential, it seems, to New Yorkers. One woman...
A ghastly incident in Spain shows what could happen
Elderly found dead in their beds – and abandoned A home where 17 residents have died from coronavirus / FERNANDO VILLAR / EL PAÍS Not...
Best Coronavirus quotes
Lots to read from every point of view“If I get Corona, I get Corona. At the end of the day I’m not going to let...
Silver lining theories for the crisis
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good Photo by Ella Ivanescu on Unsplash With deaths mounting, economies tanking and unemployment growing, it’s hard to see a silver...