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Letters Covid-19: Back to school

Workforce implications of self-isolation resulting from symptomatic schoolchildren

BMJ 2020; 371 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3971 (Published 16 October 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;371:m3971
  1. Danny J N Wong, anaesthetic registrar,
  2. Kariem El-Boghdadly, consultant anaesthetist
  1. Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
  1. danny.wong{at}gstt.nhs.uk

After a trough in new covid-19 cases in the UK over the summer, case numbers in recent weeks have begun to rise sharply again.1 Either causing this or in spite of this, children have returned to schools2 and the government is actively encouraging people to return to their offices for work.

As Mathew mentions,3 returning to …

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