Category: COVID-19

Covid-19 has reduced life expectancy in four fifths of OECD countries with comparable data and…

Singapore’s government will no longer fund covid treatment after 8 December for citizens and residents…

Although the overall use of healthcare services fell by about a third during the covid-19…

The release of long delayed minutes from meetings of the UK government’s vaccine advisory committee…

Pfizer’s oral antiviral drug paxlovid significantly reduces hospital admissions and deaths among people with covid-19…

The UK’s medicines regulator has issued temporary authorisation of the antiviral drug molnupiravir for the…

US physicians began giving the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine to children aged 5-11 on 3 November,…

Many things are needed to get the world through this pandemic: one of them is…

Although the Ingelfinger rule seems to have dissolved into dust with the coming of covid-19,1…

AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the changes in life expectancy and years of life lost in 2020 associated…

In autumn 2020 Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive, Albert Bourla, released an open letter to…

I look forward to seeing more details about the effects of molnupiravir on covid-19, preferably…

AbstractObjectiveTo determine if inhaled and intranasal ciclesonide are superior to placebo at decreasing respiratory symptoms…

The US emergency use authorisation of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine in people aged 12-17 will be…

Vaccination reduces but does not eliminate the risk of covid-19 transmission within households, a study…

Deborah Birx, who was the White House coronavirus response coordinator under President Donald Trump, has…

England’s covid-19 testing and tracing system failed to achieve its main objective—to break chains of…

The UK seems to be in an invidious position in the pandemic: on 24 October…

The UK has started stockpiling two antiviral drugs as part of a plan to give…

Moscow is imposing Russia’s first major lockdown in over a year as the country seeks…

The World Health Organization has chosen 26 scientists from 700 applicants for a new group…

The first countrywide study of deaths caused by the delta variant of covid-19 has found…

The BMA has accused the UK government of being “wilfully negligent” by not immediately implementing…

A Brazilian Senate inquiry into the pandemic has recommended charging the country’s far right president…

Clinically extremely vulnerable people, who have been asked to shield during the covid pandemic, have…

A demonstration in Trieste, Italy, against the mandate for health passports in the workplace turned…

Before England’s “freedom day”—when the last of the covid-19 restrictions were lifted on 19 July…

Hospital admissions for covid-19 among children aged 5-11, who are not yet eligible for vaccination,…

The UK’s data privacy watchdog has ordered the government to reveal the names of almost…

“Inequity” is a word firmly attached to Africa, and not just in the pandemic. Inequity…

Governments are causing unnecessary covid-19 deaths by trying to silence healthcare workers, journalists, and researchers,…

Valneva’s covid-19 vaccine produces significantly higher concentrations of neutralising antibodies than the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine does,…

Northern Syria is experiencing its most severe wave of covid-19, with facilities running out of…

An estimated one in 120 people in England were infected with SARS-CoV-2 in September, shows…

The NHS will have an “exceptionally difficult” winter, whether there is another covid-19 surge or…

Scientists who have spoken to the media about covid-19 have faced shocking and unacceptable abuse…

Was it fatalism that allowed 138 000 covid deaths in the UK? Were these deaths…

The numbers of pregnant and postpartum women in the UK admitted to hospital or intensive…

The official inquiry into the UK’s handling of the covid-19 pandemic will have many things…

The government’s actions in dealing with the covid-19 pandemic have received a mixed review from…

Estimating mortality attributable to different diseases, risk factors, or events is pivotal to inform resource…

Six months after the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine, antibody concentrations in healthcare…

Wise reports on the finding that patients with the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 are more…

Sweden, Norway, and Finland suspended the use of Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine on 7 October after…

“For this outbreak, it’s clear that long periods of heavy restrictions have not got us…

The government was warned four years before the covid-19 pandemic of the need to stockpile…

MPs are being urged to examine how UK private hospitals secured potentially billions of pounds…

People who took part in covid-19 vaccine trials in the UK will be offered two…

Even in a country with a history of politicising healthcare, the six months since the…

The government has refused to release the minutes of the meeting in which its vaccine…