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In the slipstream of the extraordinary, worldwide natural experiment reducing close human contact to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2, a drastically but temporarily diminished transmission of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children occurred in the winter of 2020–21.1 This glimpse of a world without RSV gained momentum for the urgent need for preventive strategies for this prototypical paediatric pathogen, which causes a spectrum of mild upper-respiratory to severe lower-respiratory tract disease in young children.

Upon reading Chloe Saunders and colleagues’ Comment,1 it is striking how this new paradigm is essentially the old paradigm for medically unexplained symptoms and contested illnesses.2 The authors advance an alleged philosophical problem they call “taboos based on a dualistic understanding of physical versus mental illness”. They assert such “Poorly integrated explanatory models contribute to poor care and stigma for people who are ill in these specific ways.”

Some people do not believe long COVID (also known as post-COVID-19 condition) is real. In fact, patients have reported that there are even doctors who sit in this camp, who might dismiss their symptoms as psychosomatic, or do not know how to recognise or treat long COVID. It is complicated, even for researchers. People might not have had severe symptoms when infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus, they might be young, without a significant medical history or risk factors. Although studies suggest around 10–20% of individuals who did not have severe acute disease might develop long COVID symptoms, th...

On 21 Jan, 2023, the results of the WEAN SAFE study were published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. It is an international observational study about weaning from mechanical ventilation with one of the largest cohorts ever published.1

This study demonstrated that spiritual needs are common among Danes. These findings have important implications for public health policies and clinical care. Care for the spiritual dimension of health is warranted as part of holistic, person-centered care in what we term ‘post-secular’ societies. Future research should inform how spiritual needs might be addressed in healthy and diseased populations in Denmark and other European countries and the clinical effectiveness of such interventions.