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...
The economy-linked impact of COVID-19 on mortality and health: Early learnings for South Africa’s coronavirus-linked recession
Percept | September 2020 Covid-19 and the associated lockdown decisions have created severe restrictions on the supply- and demand-sides of the South African economy which are likely to deepen the...
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...
Percept and BLM
Perceptors | June 2020 The events of the last few weeks have resonated deeply with the Percept team – we’ve been saddened and enraged, we’ve turned inward to engage our...
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...