Category: COVID-19

AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the change in odds of covid-19 over time following primary series completion of…

The parliamentary watchdog on public spending has accused the Department of Health and Social Care…

I would add three points to Extance’s overview of the oral antiviral combination of nirmatrelvir…

A doctor in California who sold hydroxychloroquine online and told an FBI agent that it…

Are we talking about bouncing back from covid?Yes and no. Some patients seem to be…

Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the Americas, where the number of reported infections rose…

In June 2021, the World Health Organization selected South African biotech company Afrigen to be…

Covid-19 vaccination is effective for cancer patients but protection wanes much more rapidly than in…

AbstractObjectiveTo examine the relative effectiveness of a fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA (BNT162b2) vaccine…

On 19 May the BMA published the first two reports of its five part review…

On 21 December 2021, a truck piled with brown cardboard boxes drove to the Goja…

US cases of gonorrhoea, syphilis, and congenital syphilis declined at the beginning of the covid-19…

US hospitals continued to perform eight overused and unnecessary surgical procedures for older patients during…

Fourth doses of covid-19 mRNA vaccines are safe and provide a substantial boost to antibody…

The global number of deaths caused by covid-19 has been severely under-reported, the World Health…

Life expectancy at birth is a key summary measure of the health of any given…

Would you spend £2bn of taxpayers’ money on an unproved treatment for covid-19 (doi:10.1136/bmj.o1053)?1 Would…

Remdesivir has no significant effect on patients with covid-19 who are already being ventilated but…

AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the effect of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) compared with conventional mechanical ventilation on…

In 2015, the world adopted 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) with 169 targets to be…

The government’s Antivirals Taskforce has procured more antivirals per population than any other country in…

What is it?Paxlovid is an antiviral combination developed by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The treatment…

AbstractObjectiveTo describe the development and validation of a novel patient reported outcome measure for symptom…

The data on which the approval of molnupiravir was based in Japan1 and the data…

Brophy emphasises the dangers of making decisions based on a single prematurely terminated trial.1 The…

Brophy’s editorial on Merck’s Move-Out trial of molnupiravir raises important concerns about the approval of…

Using a different covid-19 vaccine for the third “booster” dose than was used for the…

The NHS has relaxed infection prevention and control (IPC) requirements for hospitals and GP practices…

Ahead of a declaration of a pandemic, in February 2020 Tankred Stöbe, of Médecins Sans…

Covid-19 cases in the US rose by 43% over the past two weeks, with especially…

The prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and deaths from drug overdoses increased in the…

In late November 2021, after weeks of no confirmed community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Taiwan’s Central…

The ideal of living longer and healthier has proved to be fool’s gold. Instead, people…

During disease outbreaks, it can be tempting to sacrifice the scientific rigour of research in…

What is molnupiravir?Molnupiravir (marketed as Lagevrio) is an antiviral drug, slightly modified from a compound…

Hospitals and ambulance services in England are facing “extreme pressures” and a high volume of…

AbstractObjectivesTo assess the risk of acute and post-acute adverse events after SARS-CoV-2 infection in children…

The GBD 2019 Ageing Collaborators analysis of the 2019 study of the global burden of…

Covid-19 infections in England reached an “unprecedented” level last month, with prevalence higher than at…

The UK’s official list of covid-19 symptoms1 has been updated to include sore throat, fatigue,…

bmj;376/mar31_13/o865/FAF1faAs the world adjusts to living with covid-19 and its variants such as omicron, the…

The force of the omicron BA.2 variant this week met the immovable object that is…

On 20 February 2020, the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama, 36 km south…

Majeed and Hodes debate the idea of nationalising GPs.1 What is the pay of a…

Opinion linked to This Week, 29 FebruaryIn England, all government restrictions on covid-19, including the…

Two years into the covid-19 pandemic, access to oxygen is still a major problem in…

Jannat Bahar, a 45 year old single mother of eight children, sits behind a wooden…

A unique plant based coronavirus vaccine newly approved in Canada is unlikely to be listed…

All hospital inpatients with covid-19 should be routinely tested for influenza viruses, as those who…

Moderna said it would ask the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use…