Category: COVID-19

Thank you for publishing this important and heartfelt piece about how being listened to and…

Hotez rightly emphasises the importance of scientific approaches for stemming the covid-19 pandemic through policies…

Patients with the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 have more than double the risk of hospital…

bmj;374/sep01_7/n2142/FAF1faAs the world learns to live with the virus, countries are adopting vaccine certification as…

How did we let it get to this stage? Abbasi asks.1 The answers are not…

The sound of sirens across Tokyo has increased noticeably during August. After a year of…

The numbers of covid cases, hospitalisations, and deaths are continuing to rise across the UK,…

Protection provided by two doses of the Pfizer and the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccines wanes within…

Four in 10 people who are clinically vulnerable generate lower levels of antibodies than healthy…

What you need to knowWhen assessing mental health and wellbeing, consider developmental stage, functional or…

The past 18 months have been bizarre and unprecedented. It has been an unusual time…

It’s a winter of discontent in South Africa. Only a small fraction of the population…

In August 2020, the Philippines, already under quarantine measures involving shuttered businesses, enforced curfew hours,…

The current and future effect of long covid—which includes both ongoing symptomatic covid-19 (4-12 weeks)…

Head to Head, 17 JulyIn Wilkinson and colleagues’ article giving the reasons for and against…

India’s first confirmed case of covid-19 was detected in the southern state of Kerala on…

One year ago, when universities in the United States reopened for their fall semester, the…

Since their 18th century beginnings vaccines have been one of humanity’s most profound public health…

AlphaConsidered a variant of concern by the World Health Organization, alpha was first identified in…

AbstractObjectiveTo determine associations of BNT162b2 vaccination with SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospital admission and death with…

Early in the pandemic, Pfizer announced an intention to profit from its covid-19 vaccine.1 In…

Children born during the pandemic score markedly lower on standard measures of verbal, motor, and…

Workers with long covid will raise major questions and challenges for UK governments.12 In 3872…

Alan Mitchell, the first doctor to be elected president of the European Committee for the…

Covid-19 vaccines save lives and mitigate illness, but there is simply not an adequate supply…

The two dose regimen of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine is 88% effective against symptomatic disease…

A World Health Organisation mission to study the covid pandemic’s origins in China, which announced…

Debate on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is being conducted mainly in the world…

Thacker’s piece on the laboratory leak hypothesis does not provide much clarity for readers on…

Protests have broken out in Thailand, with demonstrators calling for the prime minister, Prayuth Chan-o-cha,…

Thacker’s comprehensive review of the Wuhan laboratory leak hypothesis makes for uncomfortable reading.1 That a…

Around one in nine hospital patients who had covid-19 during the first wave of the…

Wise reports that general practitioners might be under-reporting long covid in patient records.1 Approximately 25%…

The prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in schools in England was lower in June this…

Baraniuk reviews what we know about natural and vaccine induced immunity to SARS-CoV-2.1 Vaccines for…

Parliament’s decision to make vaccination against covid-19 a condition of employment for care home workers12…

A UK charity is offering education scholarships worth £5000 (€5600; $6900) a year to children…

After the loss of my husband to covid-19, I kept working and tried not to…

Grief and death have something crucial in common: an incidence of 100%. The ache of…

“Two days after my first symptoms, I began to feel seriously ill,” wrote BBC TV…

One month ago, Uganda was badly hit by the covid-19 delta variant that has been…

A group of junior doctors from Scotland have written to young people in their age…

Amanda Pritchard is the new chief executive officer of NHS England and the first woman…

All 16 and 17 year olds in the UK will be offered a first dose…

Rather than negotiating with pharmaceutical giants or the Covax vaccine sharing initiative, Cuba bet everything…

Rudd and Walsh discuss facial skin irritation attributed to the wearing of “facial personal protective…

By late June 2021, 46% of people in high income countries had received at least…

Most patients admitted to hospitals in England with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 received good care despite…

Epidemiologists are adjusting their expectations for the future course of the pandemic after data from…

“I can’t describe to you how desperate it was. Every single day there was an…