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Dear secretary of state, You arrive at a crucial time in the pandemic and have…

During the covid-19 pandemic the British public has been instructed: “If you have a high…

Godlee says that it takes both time and hard work to regain lost trust.1 The…

How long does covid-19 immunity last?This is difficult to say definitively. When the body’s immune…

Over half (52%) of GP practice staff have received threats of physical abuse while working…

Upgrading face masks to filtering face piece (FFP3) respirators for healthcare workers on covid-19 wards…

In March 2020, as cases of covid-19 spiked around the world, we set out the…

Just 28 positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection were identified among more than 58 000 people…

The interval between the first and second doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine can be…

What would you do to keep your job? It’s a question that healthcare workers in…

The covid-19 pandemic will continue to impact mental health and the provision of psychiatric services…

GPs have called on the government to update the official list of covid-19 symptoms after…

With vaccination programmes driving forward across all four nations of the UK, it is certain…

The covid-19 pandemic has sent food prices soaring around the world, the United Nations World…

President Biden admitted on 22 June that the US would miss the target of vaccinating…

South Asia was one of the first regions to be exposed to SARS-CoV-2 through travellers…

The world is starting to glimpse a possible end to the covid-19 pandemic, thanks to…

What is the latest?On 23 June the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s safety…

Is football coming home?Yes, 60 000 footie fans have got the green light to go…

Around a third of people in England who developed covid-19 went on to experience long…

What’s the long term outlook after covid? And what’s the prognosis for health systems and…

Israel’s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, is reconvening the coronavirus cabinet and has urged Israelis…

What you need to knowThe positive predictive value of a positive lateral flow device (LFD)…

The increasing availability of covid-19 vaccines has signalled to many the beginning of the end…

Mughal and colleagues provide a useful overview of mental health support during the covid-19 pandemic.1Outdoor…

Razai and colleagues discuss covid-19 vaccine hesitancy.1 We agree that there is no single solution…

Almost all new cases of covid-19 are the delta variant but new data suggests that…

It has been over a year since the first patients were discharged from UK hospitals…

By mid-June 2021, the UK had administered over 70 million doses of covid-19 vaccine, with…

In leafy East Sussex the rates of those who have had their first and second…

Current trajectories suggest that the UK is facing a third surge of covid-19, while booster…

The first vaccines against the novel pathogen SARS-CoV-2 were deployed just nine months after the…

Regeneron’s antibody combination treatment cut deaths in seronegative patients—meaning those who had not mounted their…

Coronavirus infections in England grew exponentially between 20 May and 7 June, with a doubling…

How well prepared were countries for this pandemic? Back in October 2019 the US and…

After a slow start, Japan is racing to vaccinate its healthcare workforce and its most…

Lavine and colleagues call for a much needed reconsideration of the push to vaccinate children…

Widespread adoption of online consultations during the pandemic has meant that they have been tested…

Brazil continues to report a high number of covid-19 infections and deaths against the backdrop…

Millions of vaccines are in danger of being thrown out as the US immunisation campaign…

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the relation between diagnosis of covid-19 with SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 (also known as…

The most recent vulnerability of societal structures exposed by covid-19 is the inability of pharmaceutical…

Are covid-19 hospital admissions increasing?Yes. The number of new cases of covid-19 has been rising…

G7 leaders have committed themselves to provide one billion covid-19 vaccine doses for low and…

The US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) has raised concerns about the safety and the…

In a four hour session with MPs on 10 June, England’s health secretary responded in…

The UK government modelled a coronavirus pandemic five years ago but kept the fact secret…

The AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine is associated with a small increased risk of immune thrombocytopenic purpura…

Trust is at the heart of healthcare—it takes time and care to build but can…

We welcome Reddy’s editorial on covid-19 in India,1 but want to emphasise one further issue:…