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NHS leaders have welcomed a commitment by the government to guarantee an “uninterrupted supply” of…

Thousands of people who had tests for covid-19 in NHS hospitals and Public Health England…

The UK government has set out plans to amend drug regulations in case it decides…

Sweden’s response to covid-19 should not be used to argue the case for a population…

What’s this, another shaggy dog story?Not at all. Canine scent detectors have been working at…

The government is urging all adults in England and Wales to download the NHS covid-19…

The authors of a new review of international experiences of easing lockdown during the covid-19…

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provoked controversy when it changed information about…

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “will not delay, but will not cut corners”…

Scientists are in dispute.1 There is nothing new in this. Debate is to be encouraged—truth…

In May the National Portrait Gallery launched Be Still to create a unique collective portrait…

There are few better known authorities on the covid-19 pandemic than Anthony Fauci. One of…

Health experts have urged the government to publish the results of pilots of its covid-19…

The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has set out new national measures designed to halt…

India’s private medical community has accused government authorities of “indifference” to the plight of doctors…

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) swab test is useful (but not perfect) for detecting SARS-CoV-2…

Two open letters sent to the UK’s four chief medical officers signal the polarisation of…

The Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies has published an emergency 10 point plan to…

Faced with a novel lethal virus, employers have struggled to implement their legal duty to…

Although “quarantine” and “self-isolation” involve similar measures,1 their purposes are quite different. The World Health…

The covid-19 pandemic has seen record numbers of people off work. With lockdown eased, the…

How big is the problem?The UK’s community testing system for covid-19 seems to be under…

The UK government should immediately organise a quick interim review into deaths from covid-19 to…

Is this a physics lesson?No, it’s just the government’s latest covid-19 buzz phrase. “Circuit break”…

A point of care covid-19 test—which the UK government plans to roll out across the…

The first US government review of covid-19 deaths in people aged under 211 has found…

We thank Gray and Back for their article on communication and covid-19.1 Conversations in our…

We have been in countless meetings that have included discussions about making the workplace covid-secure…

England’s NHS Test and Trace service wasn’t prepared for the increased demand that has seen…

One time screening for SARS-CoV-2 in apparently healthy people is likely to miss those who…

The covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world. In addition to the direct consequences of the…

Even in local areas that have experienced some of the greatest rises in excess deaths…

In the week since The BMJ broke the story about the government’s Operation Moonshot plans…

Doctors and healthcare staff who have worked during the covid-19 pandemic should be rewarded to…

What does our initial response to the pandemic teach us about the balance, and future…

What is Operation Moonshot?It refers to the government’s plan to deliver a mass population testing…

Delivering mass testing on the scale and level of ambition set by the UK prime…

Plasma from people recovering from infection, particularly after severe illness, may contain high levels of…

A group of doctors who have been affected by persistent symptoms of covid-19 have written…

We write as a group of doctors affected by persisting symptoms of suspected or confirmed…

The RECOVERY trial, which discovered that dexamethasone shows benefit in patients seriously ill with covid-19,…

Belarus’s beleaguered government remains unfazed by covid-19. President Aleksander Lukashenko, who has been in power…

The Royal College of GPs has said that a letter from NHS England calling on…

On 9 August, the US passed the five million mark in cases of covid-19, representing…

The government’s “moonshot” plan to test millions of people daily for covid-19 risks repeating the…

Doctors working outside their usual area of practice with limited or no support or guidance…

It’s everywhereYou’re telling me. Terms that used to be the preserve of scientists are suddenly…

Scotland has launched its own contact tracing app for covid-19 based on the same Apple…

Operation Moonshot is the name of the UK government’s newly proposed covid-19 mass testing scheme….

Last week at Prime Minister’s Questions Boris Johnson claimed that the UK was now carrying…