Category: COVID-19

Over £4m (€4.4m; $5.2m) has been announced to fund six new research projects investigating the…

Covid-19 has shown the vital importance of human behaviours such as social distancing in controlling…

Having a BMI of 35 to 40 may increase the risk of death from covid-19…

The initial data reported by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System study were of great interest,…

The United States is host to more documented covid-19 cases and deaths than any other…

Most US states are missing key indicators in the data they publish about the course…

In June, Latin America and the Caribbean became the world’s latest covid-19 hotspot with the…

The former head of the British civil service has criticised the government’s response to the…

The recent UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS) study provides UK specific information about covid-19 in…

I am writing to provide further detail on the government’s work to tackle the health…

President Donald Trump signalled a shift in tone this week by admitting that the US…

Healthcare staff working at the height of the covid-19 pandemic in England were not properly…

We have published a paper with 12 tables (in a supplementary file) with calculations of…

All NHS workers should be given the same access to covid-19 swab testing to avoid…

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Intensive immunosuppressive treatment with high dose glucocorticoids, followed by an interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor antagonist where…

The covid-19 pandemic has revealed the depth of social and racial inequalities in the United…

The World Health Organization’s lack of power to ensure its members follow its advice and…

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As we come to the end of the first phase of the covid pandemic it…

In the two months since Brazil became the country second most affected by the covid-19…

The world’s second largest Ebola outbreak is over. An outbreak that began on 1 August…

Doctors who have been shielding during the covid-19 pandemic have said they are worried for…

The UK government has agreed a deal with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to get “early…

An analysis of data obtained from a symptom tracker app has shown that there are…

England could require another national lockdown during the winter because of the prevalence of flu…

Although covid-19 is a new and emerging disease, it could be one of the best…

Some lockdown restrictions are to be eased in Leicester two weeks after local measures were…

Local public health teams are not being provided with the patient identifiable information on covid-19…

Overall mortality of covid-19 patients in intensive care units (ICU) has fallen from 59.5% at…

At the start of the covid-19 pandemic the government’s mantra was that it would be…

More than a fifth of people in England who tested positive for covid-19 in the…

Samar, 36, is furious at those who run his city. In June, when Suresh, his…

The British Prime Minister’s words were clear. Asked about the way that covid-19 had spread…

Two seemingly disparate risk factors have emerged for susceptibility and severity of covid-19: obesity1 and…

The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has committed to an independent inquiry into the country’s…

The Isle of Wight moved from having one of the worst covid-19 reproduction rates in…

Concern about a winter wave of covid-19 is rightly prompting calls for intense preparation. Measures…

It took 90 days for Africa, with 54 countries, to reach 100 000 cases, but…

For the past few months, scientists in the UK have been quietly poring over samples…

Data on hospital admissions and deaths from covid-19 in the US are no longer being…

The impact of covid-19 on children will continue for years, affecting them educationally, emotionally, and…

French doctors have reported the case of a 23 year old woman in the last…

Doctors in Egypt who have complained about a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) or…

The government has announced it will publish new national guidance for England on “do not…

From March until late May Uganda was under strict lockdown to reduce the spread of…

For Kathryn Ward, covid-19 has not only meant months of shielding and a cancelled stem…

Experts have criticised pharmaceutical firm Gilead Sciences after it released data suggesting that its antiviral…

The acceleration of antimicrobial resistance in covid-19 is genuinely alarming.1 It has added to the…

Just weeks ago, British streets were ringing with applause for health workers and a million…