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Letters Covid-19: chance to reduce healthcare

Covid-19 also a chance to assess risk reduction or prevention treatments

BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3323 (Published 28 August 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m3323
  1. Louisa Polak, GP
  1. Bury St Edmunds IP33 1ET, UK
  1. lpolak{at}doctors.org.uk

I agree with Moynihan and colleagues1 that the pandemic offers a “natural experiment in less medical care,” and that the results may help identify some interventions that do more harm than good to most people. I also agree that the financial crisis will focus our minds on the desirability of maximising value for money.

I am, however, …

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