TY - JOUR T1 - The Political Determinants of Health JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 571 LP - 571 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X713525 VL - 70 IS - 701 AU - Euan Lawson Y1 - 2020/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/701/571.2.abstract N2 - Joe Biden will be the 46th President of the US and one of his first actions after winning the election was to lay out plans for his COVID Taskforce. The political and the medical are inseparable. A presidential election is polarising but, increasingly, the calculus of COVID-19 is conducted in base two. Everything is 0 or 1. We argue about the economy or lives; GP practices are portrayed as open or closed; the Great Barrington Declaration is set against the John Snow Memorandum; and we agonise over the false dichotomy of lockdown versus freedom. It’s all … ER -