Covid-19: It's too soon to lift lockdown

ABSTRACT

While we count the terrible toll of covid-19 (doi10.1136/bmj.m1835) and continue asking hard questions of our governments (doi10.1136/bmj.m2052), clinicians and patients are embracing new ways of doing things virtual wards are helping to keep covid patients out of hospital (doi10.1136/bmj.m2119), mental health services are experimenting with phone triage and virtual appointments (doi10.1136/bmj.m2106), and doctors are supporting each other through their uniquely shared covid experience (doi10.1136/bmj.m1499). [...]in other news the NHS has launched a race and health observatory, after The BMJ's call for action to end racial inequalities (doi10.1136/bmj.m2191). The world is facing a scale of challenge not seen since the second world war. [...]rather than identify and empower local leadership (https//blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/05/27/chris-ham-test-and-trace-strategy-must-value-local-leadership-to-be-a-success), the government seems set to continue its centralised bungling and magical thinking (https//blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/05/28/public-trust-and-the-publics-health-two-sides-of-the-same-coin).