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What you need to knowPositive antibodies show evidence of previous exposure to SARS-CoV-2 virusAntibody testing…

It was an incident that seemed to epitomise the state of affairs in the US….

DefinitionPanel member Nisreen Alwan (box 1) began the discussion by defining long covid as “not…

Gastrointestinal symptoms are common in children infected with SARS-CoV-2 and should trigger tests for the…

Almost 1300 controlled trials have been registered for drug interventions for covid-19.1 Among them have…

A 33 year old man from Hong Kong is reported to have the first confirmed…

Chodosh and colleagues1 and Grote and Izagaren2 highlight an important matter but overlook the use…

The NHS has embarked on a nationwide covid-19 risk assessment programme with good intentions.12The whole…

Three MPs and the Good Law Project have launched legal action against the UK government…

While we await the inevitable public inquiry into the UK’s management of covid-19,1 it is…

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved convalescent plasma for emergency use in hospital…

The announcement by Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, that the country has developed and approved the…

bmj;370/aug21_10/m3309/FAF1faMatteo Adinolfi was born in 1928 in Asmara, Eritrea, to Attilio, a bank manager, and…

Mass testing programmes for covid-19 should be drawing on the UK’s considerable track record in…

In July, 239 scientists signed an open letter “appealing to the medical community and relevant…

Few can doubt that we need a vaccine for covid-19 as soon as possible, and…

Key messagesFace coverings used by the public are now widely recommended as source control during…

Official figures on the impact of covid-19 in Zimbabwe belie a country grappling with health…

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is to expand its infection survey to 150 000…

Deaths from covid-19 in England and Wales dipped to their lowest in 20 weeks in…

In March 2020, the UK government commissioned non-medical manufacturers, including Dyson and Renault, to produce…

bmj;370/aug19_2/m3245/FAF1faCredit: Fabeha Monir / Age InternationalA doctor tests the blood pressure of a man in…

Japan has seen a resurgence of covid-19, and the effective reproduction number has been above…

The global race for a covid-19 vaccine seems under way to break all speed records….

Last week, the government announced a major shift in its approach to covid-19 contact tracing…

Quarantini, the cocktail of the pandemic?Sadly no, we’re talking about new rules which mean that…

The UK is one of the countries most severely affected by covid-19. Recent outbreaks in…

A third of doctors have treated patients with long term covid-19 symptoms, including chronic fatigue…

A healthcare professional is facing a fitness to practise investigation for delaying attending to a…

Sokol and Dattani ask how to obtain consent now that hospitals are resuming elective surgery.1…

I read with delight the article by Sokol and Dattani on how surgeons should seek…

The trade group for the US pharmaceutical industry has warned that President Donald Trump’s latest…

When the 15 bed clinic managed by Diego Posada started filling in mid-June, he received…

The Federation of Surgical Specialty Associations (FSSA) published Developing Safe Surgical Service for the Covid…

Two essential clinical principles have guided my practice as an emergency medicine doctor. First, I…

Covid-19 has caused mental health problems, economic hardship, and lack of trust in national leadership…

What is behavioural fatigue? Nobody really knows, but it is something we should be acutely…

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has exposed fundamental weaknesses in UK society. Some fragile systems, such as…

Do the recent vaccine papers tell us anything new?There was a flurry of excitement last…

Leicester was the first place in the UK to be singled out for a local…

The current NHS Test and Trace programme in England must significantly improve if schools are…

The UK government has spent £161m (€178m; $210m) on 5.8 million covid-19 testing kits, which…

An analysis of thousands of emails has shown the extent to which Coca-Cola sought to…

Sweden does not have a herd immunity strategy, and it is irresponsible for The BMJ…

Scotland is urging England and Wales to join Scotland and Northern Ireland in a four…

Three scientific organisations have proposed plans for the US to gain control of the pandemic…

The extent and severity of the long term respiratory complications of covid-19 infection remain to…

A council in England has set up its own covid-19 contact tracing system because of…

People in Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and West Yorkshire are no longer allowed to have visitors…