Doctors

The Thusong Multipurpose Center in Khayelitsha which will serve as a Covid-19 site in Cape Town. (Brenton Geach, Gallo Images) The Western Cape is looking to hire more than 5 000 health workers to bolster its battle against the coronavirus as the death toll reached 699 on Saturday.This after President Cyril Ramaphosa said "money isn't…

spur resistance to the lifesaving drugs as bacteria mutate and outsmart the drugs.Many critically ill patients on ventilators have developed serious secondary infections. But widespread fears that coronavirus patients were especially susceptible to drug-resistant infections — a concern first described in studies from China — appear to have been misguided, according to interviews with researchers…

Since Covid-19 started spreading around the world, governments have had to create new societal rules to try and stop transmission. These have ranged from strict lockdowns where most people have not been allowed to leave their homes, to less stringent rules for keeping physically distant from others when outside. Let's be honest, you are never going to…

Routine physical exams — such as this one in pre-pandemic days — involved fewer gloves, masks and other safety measures. Today, doctors' offices and hospitals are taking many more precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Routine physical exams — such as this one in…

There is an alternate universe of Covid-19 misinformation masquerading as science, which with the encouragement of Donald Trump, is proliferating among his supporters. Among the most ardent proponents of these claims is the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a fringe group of less than 5,000 doctors. The group was recently cited by Trump’s…