Category: COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2 has been in the human population for more than a year now, causing severe…

“Covid has changed the conversation,” says physician Saira Ghafur, who leads digital health at the…

Marteau and colleagues1 have helpfully updated the Marmot review,2 highlighting “intervention generated inequalities” (IGIs) as…

The covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated access problems in general practice and patients have reported finding…

bmj;372/mar22_9/n790/FAF1faDominic Lipinksi/PA/AlamyFrank Acquaah, a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, stands in front of an art installation,…

Interim analysis of a phase III trial has found that the vaccine produced by Oxford…

Doctors must be allowed to rest and recuperate from the exhaustion of working throughout the…

More than three quarters of Wuhan residents who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies had experienced…

I appreciate Hurley’s call for internationally equitable vaccination, which makes a clear case on the…

The Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine is not linked to an increased risk of blood clots and…

How is testing being implemented in secondary schools?Schoolchildren across England returned to their classrooms from…

What is Sputnik V?Russia’s first approved vaccine was developed and produced entirely domestically and has…

Dissent is under threat. To disagree is to affront. To protest is to break the…

On 30 December 2020, the UK announced a deviation from the recommended protocol for the…

bmj;372/mar18_2/n749/FAF1faCredit: Ikana Media, Johnson it’s to restore hope to people during their darkest hours.” No…

Domestic violence and abuse is a violation of human rights that damages the health and…

AbstractObjectivesTo examine longitudinal changes in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seroprevalence and to…

bmj;372/mar17_7/n718/FAF1faIvan Alvarado/Reuters/AlamySince the beginning of the year Santiago airport in Chile has been busy distributing…

Tom Frieden led the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for nearly a…

The NHS and social care systems in England need an extra £12bn (€14bn; $16.7bn) a…

Tempers in Europe have been fraying as the European Union tries to get to grips…

Doctors have warned of the risks associated with pausing or delaying vaccination programmes against covid-19,…

Italy has once again emerged as Europe’s covid-19 hotspot, with half the country forced into…

Many health systems in Europe have suffered “chronic underfunding and underinvestment in the health workforce,”…

Among the unknowns that have featured in the steep learning curve of our covid-19 year,…

The UK government’s failure to share the data behind its decisions during the covid pandemic…

The covid-19 pandemic has exposed failures to respond effectively to the emergence of a highly…

The NHS will continue to contact and hold one-to-one meetings with doctors and other staff…

The pandemic has brought innumerable difficulties, some immediately obvious and others more insidious. Focus has…

Since the military coup in Myanmar, which began on 1 February, the country’s response to…

Denmark has temporarily suspended use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine as a precautionary move after…

Hong Kong—Scars of past epidemicsGabriel M Leung, University of Hong KongEast Asia’s response to covid-19…

AbstractObjectiveTo establish whether there is any change in mortality from infection with a new variant…

US Catholics looking for church guidance on vaccination were left with several competing viewpoints this…

Over the past year the government has enthusiastically told us about getting control over the…

It was gratifying to see the recognition of San Francisco’s effort to help people isolate…

We disagree with Razai and colleagues on the comparative lack of data on ethnicity in…

In March 2020, as the financial pain caused by Peru’s national lockdown began to bite,…

Female doctors have taken on extra—often unpaid—work during the pandemic, to the detriment of their…

Organising the covid-19 vaccination programme puts enormous pressure on healthcare systems. Two major challenges must…

The precise combination of factors responsible for the disproportionate effect of covid-19 on ethnic minority…

Abbasi calls for redress for the mishandling of the pandemic.1 But mainstream media outlets report…

It is never easy to explain, to someone from elsewhere who is unfamiliar with the…

The BMA has described a proposed 1% pay rise for consultants and salaried GPs working…

The BMJ’s article about aerosol transmission in covid-19 rightly draws attention to an important subject,…

The BMJ reports preliminary efficacy data from the phase III trial of the Novavax vaccine.1…

The opening of schools across the UK and elsewhere in the world will bring relief…

The Covax Facility (Covax) has announced where 237 million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca covid-19…

Highly efficacious vaccines for covid-19 are now being distributed in high income countries. At the…