‘I’ll be home for Christmas’ Viral strains: a practice’s pandemic playbook

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‘I’ll be home for Christmas’ Viral strains: a practice’s pandemic playbook

Niamh Kernan GP at Kumeu Medical Centre
GP Niamh Kernan says COVID-19 has changed everything at the practice

We are on our summer break and the editorial office is closed until 18 January. In the meantime, please enjoy our Summer Hiatus series, in which our journalists have selected articles from our 2020 news and clinical archives, The Conversation and other publications with which we share content. Please note the comment function has been turned off while we are away. Happy reading.

From Simon Maude: With holiday season underway, I felt republishing this story is a timely reminder to us all taking breaks that many primary care clinicians won't, or can't. Come Christmas day, raise them a toast.

Kumeu Village Medical Centre practice manager Lianne Otto says she is holding her breath about the coming Christmas period. At the start of this y