Category: COVID-19

A hospital trust in the Midlands has said that it is working to understand why…

Until covid-19 hit, Eric Kutscher was used to seeing people sunbathing on his daily walk…

Is this a new covid themed hotel?You could put it like that. From 15 February…

Are cloth masks still recommended?Early in the pandemic, major problems in the global supply of…

“AstraZeneca vaccine apparently hardly effective in seniors,” reported the German economic newspaper Handelsblatt on Monday…

Hospitals in the Brazilian Amazon collapsed for the second time in mid-January.A surge in patients…

A team of scientists sent to Wuhan, China, by the World Health Organization to investigate…

The NHS must have a realistic and steady approach to resuming services disrupted by the…

Covid restrictions across Europe are bringing a stuttering end to a costly second wave and…

Young people aged five to 17 with covid-19 are less likely to report fever, persistent…

Salisbury acknowledges the challenges GPs have had regarding “respectful disagreement” with covid-19 policy and guidance.1…

Experts have warned that schools must be reopened with caution, amid emerging evidence from Israel…

The UK’s medicines regulator has described the first safety data related to covid-19 vaccines as…

Rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine in South Africa has been paused after a study…

Compared with other G7 countries, Japan has been relatively successful in mitigating the spread of…

In their editorial on trends in suicide in the covid-19 pandemic, John and colleagues discuss…

“When you settle on a problem, devote the resources to it, and have at least…

Carina Marquez was surprised to see the Latino man return to the test site she…

We read the reports from Israel suggesting that one dose of Pfizer vaccine could be…

As in, when a disease is spread by touching someone or something?Well, yes. But the…

The mental health charity Mind has launched guidance for NHS leaders on creating workplace cultures…

As many as 384 million kits have been ordered by the UK government at a…

Early findings from Israel’s covid-19 vaccination programme suggest that the rollout of the Pfizer BioNTech…

Lockdown was the false debate of 2020. Nobody wants lockdown, neither the John Snows nor…

Relatively few peer reviewed papers have documented the disease features of “long covid,” but patient…

Covid-19 vaccinationAll care home residents in England offered vaccineThe SARS-CoV-2 vaccine has been offered to…

The mandate of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response is to “provide an…

Murder is an emotive word. In law, it requires premeditation. Death must be deemed to…

The UK’s approach of leaving an interval of three months between doses of the Oxford…

Around one in four people who had evidence of past covid-19 infection were completely asymptomatic,…

An urgent inquiry is needed to understand why deaths from alcohol hit record levels in…

Governments have invested enormous resources in scaling up testing capacity in their responses to covid-19….

bmj;372/feb02_17/n307/FAF1faYang Shiyao/Xinhua News Agency/PAAfter a new outbreak of covid-19 last month, China is constructing a…

People who have already had confirmed covid-19 might only need a single dose of a…

Concern about vaccine nationalism is well founded,1 but it has overshadowed another form of injustice:…

In response to Schwartz on equitable global access to covid-19 vaccines,1 Lloyd-Sherlock and colleagues2 consider…

What is being deployed?The government announced this week that it was rolling out additional surge…

A spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care said that there were no…

The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine produced by the US biotechnology company Novavax is 95.6% effective against the…

The European Medicines Agency authorised Astra Zeneca’s SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for use in all adults aged…

“Chaotic decision making,” as well as undermining the government’s response to the pandemic,1 also lowers…

World Health Organization officials have voiced concerns at “vaccine nationalism” which could increase the risk…

The UK’s response to covid-19 compares poorly with that of other countries. The reasons are…

I hope this letter sharing 140 (and counting) general practitioners’ clinical experiences of patients with…

A string of revelations about vaccine prices has focused attention on a practice considered normal…

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on 28 January that two…

Since March 2020, UK researchers have established over 70 urgent public health studies to investigate…

The covid-19 pandemic is hopefully a short-lived global crisis adding to existing global challenges arising…

Key messagesThe Global Health Security Index predicted that the world in general was not well…

The covid-19 pandemic has exposed the longstanding structural drivers of health inequities, such as precarious…