The new world order

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The new world order

Jim Vause

Thursday 7 May 2020, 11:02 AM

Nightingale Hospital, London [photo: G Sludge/Wikicommons]

It took the UK’s NHS just 18 days to convert a London convention centre into a 2900-bed intensive care unit

The Simpson report will prove itself irrelevant if its recommendations do not fit with the post-COVID-19 world, writes Nelson GP Jim Vause

The need to do something has shortened feedback loops, disempowered scientific rigour, made for some strange bedfellows and created new meanings for o

Infectious Disease

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[3] Berwick DM. Choices for the “New Normal”. JAMA. Published online May 04, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.6949

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