The Plague Pit

Welcome to issue number 40. For this timely and informative article, I have to thank a seasoned Plague Pit contributor, Gunn (Te) Pungpapong. Te is in the sixth form at Winchester College and right in the middle of his medical school applications. Here he considers the mental health implications of the pandemic for patients, health care staff and even his fellow Wykehamists. COVID-19 and its hidden mental health epidemic It’s perhaps easy to forget about the pandemic’s mental health effects…

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Welcome to The Plague Pit – issue number 29 I’m very pleased to welcome a new student contributor to the site, Te Pungpapong. Te is in the sixth form at Winchester College and getting ready to apply for medical schools later this year. In this splendid article, he looks at how different countries across the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dichotomy of SARS-CoV-2 between high-income countries and developing countries is hard to believe, with the disproportionality of…

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