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Sixty seconds on . . . the blitz

BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3481 (Published 04 September 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m3481
  1. Abi Rimmer
  1. The BMJ

Don’t mention the war!

Sorry, but I can’t help it. Edgar Jones, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London has published a paper1 which compares the current covid-19 pandemic and the aerial bombings during the second world war.

Harking back to the “blitz spirit”?

Not quite. In the paper, published in Lancet Psychiatry, Jones said that by comparing the psychological responses and behaviour of people during both …

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