Vitamin D and covid-19
The covid-19 pandemic has led to many unfounded and exaggerated claims about possible treatments. One…
Category: COVID-19
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Covid-19: Government pursued in the courts over controversial antibody test
Legal campaigners have vowed to continue their action against the government over the maladministration of…
Portraits of the people who made vaccines possible
bmj;372/mar04_3/n595/FAF1faA year ago when the pandemic took hold of the world Fran Monks, a British…
Seven days in medicine: 24 February to 2 March 2021
Covid-19Health leader calls for review of England’s ICU bed capacityChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS…
Covid-19: Germany struggles with slow uptake of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine
Germany is experiencing a slow uptake of the Oxford AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine, latest figures show….
Covid-19: Universities may need to test students every three days to prevent major outbreaks, say researchers
The emergence of more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 may mean needing to test students every…
Covid-19: Schedule breast screening before vaccine or 4 to 6 weeks after to avoid false positives, says guidance
Breast screening appointments should be scheduled to take place before women receive a first dose…
Increasing recruitment into covid-19 trials: fund nursing trials
One can only agree wholeheartedly with Darzi and colleagues’ call for better recruitment into SARS-COV-2…
NHS sickness absence during the covid-19 pandemic
How have NHS staff coped faced with thousands of patients with a novel and highly…
Covid-19 trials: allow recruitment by everyone in healthcare, including those not previously involved in research
Darzi and colleagues are right to highlight research recruitment, because, before the pandemic, research activity…
Covid-19: Where are we on vaccines and variants?
Have any new variants emerged?We’ve heard a lot about B.1.1.7 (first detected in the UK),…
Covid-19: Single dose of Pfizer and Oxford vaccines cuts risk of hospital admission by 80% in over 80s, data suggest
Both the Pfizer BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines are highly effective in reducing covid-19…
Maurizio Cecconi: one year since Italy’s darkest moment
In 2020, Maurizio Cecconi was labelled one of three “pandemic heroes” by the Journal of…
SARS-CoV-2 lateral flow assays for possible use in national covid-19 seroprevalence surveys (React 2): diagnostic accuracy study
AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the performance of new lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) suitable for use in a…
Covid-19: School staff testing positive for antibodies rose to around 15% in December
The proportion of school staff testing positive for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 rose from 12.63% to…
Covid-19: UK officials try to trace unidentified case of Brazil variant
Public health officials are trying to trace an unidentified person in England who has been…
Researcher broke embargo to leak BMJ paper to Trump administration
A medical researcher who took a political appointment with the Trump administration while working on…
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Acute covid-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
What you need to knowChildren with acute covid-19 can present with non-specific symptoms. Exclude covid-19…
“We are setting ourselves on fire to keep everyone else warm”—what does the recovery look like for NHS staff?
The number of people in UK hospitals with covid-19 is currently just under 17 000,…
Gordon McVie: medical oncologist who helped drive the formation of Cancer Research UK
bmj;372/feb26_8/n570/FAF1faGordon McVie, the medical oncologist who helped orchestrate the merger of the Cancer Research Campaign…
Covid-19: NHS England pledges extra funding to local areas to reduce vaccine inequalities
Local NHS commissioners are to receive extra financial support to boost uptake of covid-19 vaccine…
Covid-19: Young mother should be allowed to die in “almost unbearable” tragedy, says ȷudge
A High Court judge has ruled that a 32 year old woman with covid-19, in…
Covid-19: Outcomes worsened in second wave for Pakistanis and Bangladeshis in England
Disparities in risk of infection and death worsened for Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in the second…
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minority groups
With mass covid-19 vaccination efforts under way in many countries, including the UK, we need…
Covid-19 and evolutionary pressure: can we predict which genetic dangers lurk beyond the horizon?
Emerging data show that the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 might be associated with an increased…
Covid-19: One in seven people in England have antibodies from infection or vaccination, finds study
Almost 14% of people in England now have evidence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, according to…
It’s self-interest to share our vaccines globally
The NHS has administered a covid-19 vaccine to more than 18 million people, a quarter…
The case for an international pandemic treaty
There is longstanding reluctance to use the treaty powers of the World Health Organization. They…
Krishna Korlipara: founder of the National Association of GP Cooperatives and longest serving elected member of the GMC
bmj;372/feb24_17/n545/FAF1faKrishna Korlipara was born in Denduluru, a rural agricultural village in Andhra Pradesh state, south…
Covid-19: Keeping schools as safe as possible
A year into the pandemic, and confronted with continued resurgence in transmission, over 800 million…
Vaccinating children to prevent long covid? More caution is needed in interpreting current epidemiological data
We are used to supporting children with chronic illness and have followed closely concerns raised…
Optimal dosing interval for covid-19 vaccines: we need clinical trial evidence and to consider past infection
I agree with Chatterjee that “the decision to delay the second dose of the Pfizer…
Coronial necropsies show the indirect damage from covid-19
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is impacting non-covid care to a greater extent than reducing normal in-hospital…
Closing schools is not evidence based and harms children
Some 8.8 million schoolchildren in the UK have experienced severe disruption to their education, with…
Covid-19: Vaccine success drives England’s lockdown exit
The government has announced plans for a gradual lifting of the current covid-19 lockdown in…
Covid-19: First doses of vaccines in Scotland led to a substantial fall in hospital admissions
Rollout of the Pfizer BioNTech and Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines has led to a substantial fall…
Covid-19: Difficult decisions require reciprocal understanding among decision makers
Ethical practice is certainly challenging “in an almost impossible position.”1 When rationing care in an…
Covid-19: Plans to share vaccines aren’t enough, says charity
New pledges by leaders of the G7 group of richest countries to intensify cooperation on…
Sixty seconds on . . . human challenge trials
Not another reality TV programme?Thankfully, no. I’m referring to human challenge trials in which healthy…
What makes new variants of SARS-CoV-2 concerning is not where they come from, but the mutations they contain
In the past three months global attention has turned to the discovery and health risks…
Covid-19: Hancock’s failure to publish contracts was unlawful
The UK government acted unlawfully in failing to publish details of dozens of contracts awarded…
Covid-19: No evidence that vaccines can affect fertility, says new guidance
There is “absolutely no evidence” that covid-19 vaccines can affect the fertility of women or…
Covid-19: Is vaccination roll out reducing cases and deaths in the UK?
Are deaths falling in groups of people who have been vaccinated?The number of deaths in…
Prophylactic anticoagulation for patients in hospital with covid-19
Most people with covid-19 have mild disease, but after 5-10 days an important minority develop…
Anne Longfield: Children must be at the heart of “building back better”
“It’s impossible to overstate how damaging the past year has been for many children—particularly those…
Wearable technology: covid-19 and the rise of remote clinical monitoring
In the age of covid-19, digital devices worn by patients are increasingly being piloted to…
Covid-19: How the UK vaccine rollout delivered success, so far
It looks like a world beating performance—the United Kingdom has administered more covid-19 vaccine first…
Covid-19: Self-isolation is the weakest link in stopping transmission
At last the weakest link in the chain of covid-19 transmission—self-isolation—is getting the attention it…
Covid-19: Scotland failed to apply measures identified in pre-pandemic exercises, says report
The health service in Scotland should have been better prepared to respond to some of…
Every UK hospital should have a respiratory support unit, say doctors
Doctors from the British Thoracic Society are calling for the NHS to officially recognise, roll…