Percept and The Covid Vaccine
Perceptors | November 2021 This is a collection of our reflections on receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. They reflect our diversity of experiences and views and styles (satire, poetry, advocacy), but...
The secondary health consequences of Covid-19: the role of fear and economic decline in health seeking behaviour
Dr Anja Smith | October 2020 Covid-19 and its secondary impacts on the health system became very real to me one day in March, shortly after the identification of Patient Zero...
Reimagining Healthcare Beyond COVID-19
Shivani Ranchod | September 2020 Shivani Rancod, CEO of Percept, discussed how we can leverage digital solutions to reimage healthcare delivery beyond Covid-19 and how we can prevent deaths resulting...
Looking into the crystal ball: trajectories for South Africa over the next 12 months
Shivani Ranchod | July 2020 Written for the Board of Healthcare Funders Covid-19 has stripped away the illusion of certainty: there is no room for denial. After months of a global...
No time to wait
Covid-19 does not arrive to a blank canvas. Instead, it snakes through pre-existing queues, igniting sites of vulnerability. As it does, it teaches us that we cannot have a...
We need caution, robust methods and strong evidence when quantifying the mortality impacts from the Covid-19 recession
Anja Smith | May 2020 During the last two weeks debates and discussions on the direct mortality impacts of Covid-19 relative to the mortality impacts that will flow from the...
We were already sick: Covid-19, non-communicable diseases, and the health response we really need.
Beth Vale | May 2020 In 1971, epidemiologist Abdel Omran, published an influential article in which he declared that humanity was undergoing an ‘epidemiological transition.’ The world was no longer...
Corona testing: the cost of certainty
Shivani Ranchod | March 2020 As with so much surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated Covid-19 illness, people world over are faced with trade-offs between the individual desire to...
When statistics lead to compassion and solidarity
Shivani Ranchod | March 2020 Paradoxically, wide-spread panic about the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, and the associated covid-19 illness does not necessarily lead to sufficient preparedness and action. Wise...