Let's stop talking about COVID-safe and COVID-secure -- it's COVID-mitigated

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A short BMJ rapid response, subsequently published in a shortened version as a letter by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), by Katie Urch and myself - we need to stop talking about COVID-safe and secure. It should be COVID-mitigated!

This letter was selected as 'Letter of the Week' and published in the print edition (lightly edited) as Urch CE & George AJT. "Covid-mitigated" is less misleading than safe or secure. BMJ (2020): 370, 406.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3258/rr-5

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.m3616?ijkey=DzMzXbuobfLBGX6&keytype=ref