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Abbasi underestimates the personal and professional impact of leading through covid-19.1 I know where our…

Lateral flow tests did not reduce the number or scale of covid-19 outbreaks in England’s…

Pregnant women should be offered the Pfizer BioNTech or Moderna covid-19 vaccine at the same…

Benefit Cosmetics has reversed a policy to ban NHS workers who had treated covid-19 patients…

Since reaching a height of around 70 000 confirmed covid-19 cases a day in England…

Covid-19 still dominates the global consciousness and therefore The BMJ’s coverage. This is unlikely soon…

Pressure is growing on the government to take urgent steps to tackle waiting time figures…

Senthilingam describes the growing obesity epidemic and rightly identifies that the covid-19 pandemic presents opportunities…

A single dose of the Pfizer or Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine produces equivalent antibody responses five…

Numbers of suicides in high and upper middle income countries remained largely unchanged or were…

The government of Japan and the International Olympic Committee are determined to hold the Olympic…

Despite early confusion over efficacy and the initial paucity of data in older age groups,1…

Covid-19 has widened longstanding health and socioeconomic inequalities affecting women and children. The effects will…

The covid-19 pandemic caused huge loss of life last year. The attribution of deaths to…

US regulators have paused the rollout of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) covid-19 vaccine after…

China may need to replace its coronavirus vaccines or change the way they are administered…

The non-profit organisation the Good Law Project has been given the go ahead to mount…

bmj;373/apr13_7/n947/FAF1faWill RoseBereaved families are asking the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, to allow the National…

The European Medicines Agency is investigating four reported cases of unusual blood clots with low…

A group of royal colleges has produced guidance for doctors seeing patients who have concerns…

Abbasi asks whether the negativity towards the AstraZeneca vaccine in the European Union is a…

Inhaled budesonide, a common corticosteroid used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, can…

Two teams of researchers have published detailed observations of patients who developed thrombotic thrombocytopenia after…

Surely it’s not the right time?That’s what Prime Minister Boris Johnson said when he committed…

Repeated population based SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence studies provide evidence on how immunity develops in a population….

At the time of writing, over 500 million doses of vaccines to combat SARS-CoV-2 have…

What is the JCVI?The 16 experts who make up the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination…

We live in extraordinary times in global health. Through two decades of the United Nations’…

What vaccines has China developed?There are about a dozen Chinese vaccine candidates for covid-19, but…

Brazil recorded over 4195 deaths from covid-19 on 6 March, the highest daily record to…

In most countries, the covid-19 infection rate is consistently higher in prisons than in the…

bmj;373/apr07_6/n909/FAF1faPhoto credit: Jess Dornan-LynasTalking to his houseman on a plane flying home, Harith Lamki suggested…

Italy has become the first country in Europe to make vaccination against covid-19 mandatory for…

In spring 2020, an estimated 1500+ academic trainees in England—representing more than 90% of all…

The Oxford AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine is facing a further wave of scepticism and restrictions as…

With millions of people receiving covid-19 vaccines globally, some countries have already started planning the…

Brazil continues to break records for all the wrong reasons as it faces its deadliest…

Vaccine hesitancy has been reported among people and healthcare staff from ethnic minorities.1 This is…

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the UK has so far affected more than four million people,…

AbstractObjectiveTo quantify rates of organ specific dysfunction in individuals with covid-19 after discharge from hospital…

A specialist in internal medicine has been charged with first degree murder following a cluster…

bmj;372/mar31_12/n847/FAF1faTwenty one countries and the UN have between them released 68 postage stamps to mark…

India is experiencing a sharp spike in covid-19 cases after months of numbers dropping. The…

People aged 16 or over who live with immunosuppressed adults should be prioritised for covid-19…

Testing for infection has a critical role in the response to the pandemic caused by…

The US reported more than 61 000 cases of covid-19 per day in the past…

What’s on offer?Doughnut giant Krispy Kreme is offering “sweet support” to Americans who protect themselves…

Not a week passes without a story in the press about the impact of covid-19…

Rapid antigen (lateral flow) tests are better at identifying covid-19 infection in people with symptoms…

What you need to knowPulse oximeters used at home can detect hypoxia associated with acute…