Category: COVID-19

Medical and race equality organisations have told The BMJ they are angry and frustrated that…

Epidemiological models have predicted that without interventions to contain the spread of covid-19, countries would…

As the nation prepares to ease public health measures, there will be a considerable workload…

Recovering from the covid-19 pandemic will be a long and difficult journey.1 The medical consequences…

As covid-19 mortality grows, the global effects of “lockdown”—from mass unemployment to threatened famine—become increasingly…

Taking hydroxychloroquine after high or moderate risk exposure to covid-19 does not prevent illness in…

Hospital doctors have established “virtual wards” whereby patients with covid-19 are managed at home, monitoring…

The epidemiologist responsible for Sweden’s controversial lighter lockdown policy has conceded that the country could…

The government urgently needs to set out a plan to reduce the huge backlog of…

Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has responded with incredulity at the lack of data about…

Doubts have emerged about the validity of widely cited research papers that have informed global…

Let’s start with some good news. The pandemic is waning in many parts of the…

AbstractObjectivesTo describe the characteristics of children and adolescents affected by an outbreak of Kawasaki-like multisystem…

People from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to have covid-19 diagnosed and to die…

In many countries struggling with the burden of the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic, a…

Yes—Edward R MelnickThere is still much we do not understand about covid-19. Since the first…

Those of us involved daily in NHS machinations and policy have long been aware of…

bmj;369/jun02_15/m2188/FAF1faFrank Augstein/AP/ShutterstockAs the UK—including the prime minister—clapped for carers, doctors held a silent protest outside…

Public health experts have added their voice to growing calls for the government to reverse…

The BMJ rightly questioned the decision that coroners need not investigate NHS England personal protective…

I was perturbed to read Partha Kar’s article in which he postulates that the poorer…

Nearly a third of doctors have reported that mental health conditions linked to their work…

Central and South America are fast becoming major centres of the covid-19 pandemic as cases…

Gonorrhoea?Ah ha, got you! No, I’m talking about the weekly “clap for our carers” that…

Doctors are dying. The combination of a novel virus, no existing treatment, and inadequate supplies…

Douglas and colleagues correctly say that refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants are vulnerable to epidemics.1…

Analysis of covid-19 related deaths among UK healthcare workers implies that it is not only…

A covid-19 contact tracing pilot scheme in Sheffield has found that two thirds of people…

Until successful vaccination programmes are in place governments will be heavily reliant on widespread testing…

The ongoing covid-19 outbreak has resulted in more than 5.4 million cases and over 330…

Points made by other respondents to Oliver’s article concerning the indeterminate position of care homes1…

The government’s next steps in handling the covid-19 pandemic have come under growing scrutiny with…

The success of test, trace, and isolate programmes to control the covid-19 pandemic will depend…

The World Health Organization has halted testing of hydroxychloroquine in patients with covid-19 after a…

Protecting those at most risk of dying from covid-19 while relaxing the strictures on others…

Oliver rightly reports that care homes are in trouble.1 Covid-19 has laid bare weaknesses of…

England is abandoning lockdown and possibly hope of containing a second wave of covid-19. From…

On 11 April Neel Shah, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynaecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard…

On 29 February 2020, South Korea, a country of similar population size to England, recorded…

I welcome Oliver’s plea that care homes are not forgotten (again) by the government after…

The concerns evoked by Oliver over care homes and covid-191 are echoed in the privatised,…

Cohort studies and case series of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) have spread almost…

Deaths resulting from covid-19 infection account for only half of the number of excess deaths…

The UK government’s handling of one of its most senior advisers who had seemed to…

Several documents presented to the UK government from its scientific advisers analysing how and when…

I’ve spent three decades working in acute hospitals. The stress, relentless pace, long shifts with…

When the Titanic sank there was a linear relation between the social class of passengers…

The Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (iSAGE) published its first report on 12 May.1…