The medical journal BMJ wondered aloud this: "The pandemic turbocharged scientific publishing. While this was widely considered a collective triumph against a global threat, have the harms of pandemic publishing been overlooked?" And the answer that came back was a decided and horrific yes.
With Canadian health-care systems in crisis, Monica Aggarwal and her colleagues at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health are working to advise health providers on building better integrated primary care systems – work she hopes will help realize real change in the sector.
The BMC Infectious Diseases Associate Editor Dr. Ziad El-Khatib shares is impressions and take home message from the hybrid European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) that took place recently in Stockholm. The content of this blog does not reflect the opinion of any of the institutions he is affiliated with, but rather his personal impressions only.