Category: COVID-19

What you need to knowLong covid (prolonged symptoms following covid-19 infection) is common The mainstay…

For 68 year old Shivji Singh, a resident of Govind Chak village in Saran district,…

I love not only the textile representations of the coronavirus featured in this news story,1…

Protesters took to the pavement outside the White House on 19 September to demand a…

Key messagesMathematical modelling is intrinsically difficult given the complexity of relationships between parameters and difficulty…

Is covid settling into a pattern?“It appears that there are two to three waves a…

An estimated 17 million people experienced long covid in the first two years of the…

The striking overlap between risk factors for severe covid-19 and those for vitamin D deficiency—older…

Who were the UK’s biggest rulebreakers?Politicians and their advisers must be up there. Under Boris…

On 18 June 2022, regulators in the US voted to authorise the rollout of Pfizer…

The results of 12 clinical trials conducted in India looking at the efficacy of molnupiravir…

AbstractObjectiveTo assess the risk of preterm birth, small for gestational age at birth, and stillbirth…

Pregnant women experienced lower rates of significant adverse events after vaccination with a covid-19 mRNA…

When and where were these subvariants detected?BA.4 and BA.5 were first detected in South Africa…

Not only has the covid pandemic taken its toll on staff, the consequences for patients…

Soon after the omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern was first reported to the World Health…

At least 14 hospitals in Canada’s most populous province are operating without key services this…

NHS staff absences in England reached the highest peak in July since mid-April, amid continuing…

The United States has joined a handful of countries recommending that children aged 6 months…

The UK government’s failure to follow basic rules in awarding £777m of contracts for covid-19…

Patients who contract covid-19 are at increased risk of being diagnosed with cardiovascular disorders and…

Covid-19BMA calls for long term plan to keep cases lowThe BMA urged the UK government…

Up to £2.7bn of taxpayers’ money is at risk in UK government disputes with contractors…

The BA.5 omicron subvariant of SARS-CoV-2 is now causing about two thirds of infections in…

Resistance to antibiotics and to antifungals rose dramatically during the covid pandemic, reversing previous gains,…

In desperate times, even in good times, we all need hope. Hope is essential and…

MPs have called on NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to redouble…

AbstractObjectiveTo assess the risk of adverse events associated with heterologous primary (two dose) and booster…

Independent researchers looking to obtain patient level data from the Pfizer and Moderna covid-19 vaccine…

Some areas of England have seen the number of patients in hospital who have tested…

AbstractObjectiveTo externally validate various prognostic models and scoring rules for predicting short term mortality in…

Minority ethnic healthcare workers have felt “vulnerable” and uncared for during the covid-19 pandemic, with…

In the past week, 11 000 people were admitted to hospitals in England with covid…

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorised licensed pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer’s oral…

AbstractObjectivesTo estimate the marginal effectiveness of a fourth versus third dose and the vaccine effectiveness…

The special arrangements that allowed full pay for NHS staff should they have to self-isolate…

Covid-19 infections in the UK are up 32% on the previous week with an estimated…

Covid-19 is killing on average two children under the age of 5 years each day…

Canada performed better than the majority of G10 countries in its response to the first…

Debate over the exact mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been intense.1 This is entirely…

AbstractObjectivesTo evaluate the potential for long distance airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in indoor community settings…

How long does SARS-CoV-2 stay in the body?There is no definitive answer. The reality of…

The first compensation payments in the UK have been made to families who have been…

The high covid-19 death rate in the US and the nation’s failures to tackle public…

We examined trends over the first two years of the pandemic in terms of the…

The experience of the covid-19 pandemic will inevitably prompt investigators to propose viral causes for…

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have…

The UK now appears to be at the start of a new wave of covid…

The risk of developing long covid is lower among people with the omicron variant of…

Patients who enter general practices in England no longer have to wear a face mask…