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...COMMUNITY COVID 19 AND YOU What are the symptoms of coronavirus? The main symptoms of coronavirus are: coughing a high temperature difficulty breathing Some people get seriously ill and die from multiple organ failure, but many people infected have very mild symptoms or none at all. What do you do if you think you have coronavirus? You may need to isolate yourself if you...

...communication. However, being able to produce lots of words very quickly is not a measure of intelligence! Here are some tests to measure your verbal fluency. You will need: a stopwatch, or a watch or clock with a second hand; pencil and paper; ideally, another person to time you and count your word output. Test 1 Speak as many fruit names as you can in 30 seconds. Test 2...

...communities or more widely in society. The referendum outcome in 2016 led some of them to go on their first protest marches against the decision. They are politically engaged and active and feel a strong sense of obligation to keep up the effort to make the world a better place for their grandchildren. Importantly, they are resistant to nostalgic rhetoric that has been...

...community’. So it is interesting that we now seem to have come full circle with the benefits of working outdoors being increasingly recognised by researchers. The time may be right to promote ‘green care’ to health commissioners and practitioners concerned to find more ways of helping vulnerable individuals, whilst perhaps more widely we will find public health...

...community who look after people who are dying or living with serious illness. These teams are frequently brought in when other medical specialists feel there is “nothing more” they can offer, especially when the patient is nearing the end of their life. This can be difficult for the palliative care staff who know they can offer much more to the patient. There was a...