id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-338516-0x4guveu Allen, Matilda A view from UK public health registrars on the challenges of COVID-19 2020-05-27 .txt text/plain 399 31 54 The quotes from frontline workers in Richard Horton's Comment 1 about COVID-19 and the National Health Service (NHS) make for distressing reading, and the risks currently facing our clinical colleagues weigh heavily on our minds. As public health registrars, we understand that root causes of the current challenges regarding COVID-19 include historical policy decisions that have affected the UK's health workforce and systems, 2 including laboratory capacity. Many of the signatories of this Correspondence were involved in Public Health England's extensive early contact tracing, testing, and isolation efforts, done by health protection staff working tirelessly across the country. We agree that improved testing capacity, combined with innovative ways to contact trace at scale, are vital. Critical supply shortages -the need for ventilators and personal protective equipment during the Covid-19 pandemic Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts ./cache/cord-338516-0x4guveu.txt ./txt/cord-338516-0x4guveu.txt