by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 6, 2020 | Pulse
July 2020 Pulse On 7 June 2020, thousands gathered in Bristol to watch and cheer as the statue of Edward Colston, a 17th century slave trader, was torn from its plinth and thrown into the harbour in protest against racism. As Gurminder Bhambra of The New York Times...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 15, 2020 | Pulse
June 2020 Pulse On 25 May, police in the city of Minneapolis arrested George Floyd, 46, for allegedly using counterfeit money to purchase a packet of cigarettes. During the arrest, officer Derek Chavin, 44, knelt on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, despite the suspect’s...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 1, 2020 | Pulse
June 2020 Pulse On March 31, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, described Covid-19 as ‘the great equaliser’. There is a sense in which Cuomo was right: the coronavirus is no respecter of persons and has in its wake afflicted healthcare professionals, a member of...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 18, 2020 | Pulse
May 2020 Pulse One of the greatest challenges that doctors and healthcare professionals face in the situation of a widespread virus outbreak like the current Covid-19 pandemic has to do with decisions they have to make on a daily basis concerning which patients should...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 4, 2020 | Pulse
May 2020 Pulse Our world is shrouded in darkness. Since December last year, a silent, deadly and invisible enemy has been ravaging it, disrupting society, destroying lives, and plunging everything into chaos. Epidemiologists, scientists and doctors scramble to find a...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 20, 2020 | Pulse
April 2020 Pulse During the earlier period of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in South Korea, many of the infected were traced to a mysterious organisation which has hitherto been off the radar of the authorities, despite its huge following of 245,000. The full...
