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The UK’s public health response to covid-19
Covid-19: now is not the time to judge the UK’s response
BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2448 (Published 19 June 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m2448
- Mary Slingo, specialty trainee year 6 in anaesthesia
- Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth PO6 3LY, UK
- maryslingo{at}doctors.org.uk
Scally and colleagues’ editorial on the UK’s public health response to covid-19 is disheartening.1The BMJ, with its global influence, has a moral obligation to publish articles based on scientific rigour. Sadly, there has been a trend towards “tabloid journalism,” with emotive language, misleading soundbites, and cherry picked citations. Only a handful of this editorial’s references are peer reviewed research; half are newspaper articles, personal opinions, and blogs. In this era of worldwide connectivity, …
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