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Justin Morgenstern joins the 5 May 2020 COVID-19 journal club for a discussion of viral shedding and transmission. The webinar and edited podcast also consider protective precautions, remdesivir, convalescent plasma, renin–angiotensin system drugs and early UK hospital cohort data.

A roundup of St Emlyn's in April 2020, including the early RCEM journal club webinars and other COVID-19 resources. The episode notes also point to exercise and nutrition, visual communication, a gardening-related skin condition and the site's curriculum-based learning pages.

A personal reflection on privilege, social bias and the limits of one's own perspective. Drawing on experiences in medicine and South Africa, the author examines uncomfortable conversations, unconscious bias and the need to listen to colleagues whose opportunities and experiences have been different.

Dan Horner reviews the 2020 NICE guidance on diagnosing and managing venous thromboembolism. The article discusses PERC, age-adjusted D-dimer, outpatient pulmonary embolism care and anticoagulant choices, including cancer-associated VTE, with attention to patient selection, bleeding risk and questions outside the guideline's scope.

Salim Rezaie joins the 28 April 2020 COVID-19 journal club, with the recording and paper list collected here. The discussion centres on thrombosis, alongside early reports on awake proning, antibody testing, hospital outcomes and falling acute coronary syndrome admissions.

An April 2020 review of ten COVID-19 papers, covering lung injury, service capacity, biomarkers, antibody testing and population surveillance. It also examines lung ultrasound, hydroxychloroquine and protection in refugee camps, separating promising ideas from evidence that was still preliminary.