Seasonal events and journal milestones

On the topic of Covid-19 and our evolving understanding of global response strategies in health care, Monroy-Iglesias et al. To prevent catastrophic infections for patients about to have general anaesthesia, patients had to isolate for 14 days pre-surgery and have a negative Covid test. Similar to the oncology papers using immediate pre-pandemic populations as controls, they found a significant increase in sepsis-related complications during the pandemic—assumed to reflect delayed presentation to acute care.