Italy is now facing a third covid-19 pandemic surge, exactly one year after the first one. But while hospital wards, emergency departments, and intensive care units are quickly filling up […]
Month: April 2021
The pandemic has demonstrated the collective power of doctors speaking up
During the pandemic, doctors came together to push for political change. We must continue to use our newfound voice, says Samantha Batt-Rawden […]
Working hard or hardly working?
Striking the right work-life balance can be difficult for the best of us—and is a dilemma medical students and doctors alike are also constantly trying to figure out. Gone are […]
Mapping the outcomes of covid-19 testing reveals the best opportunities for system improvement
To be sure that testing programmes are providing public benefit, we need empirical data on their real world consequences, say Angela Raffle, Sian Taylor-Phillips, and Alice Sitch […]
Linda Bauld: Maintaining trust in the covid-19 vaccine programme will be essential in the months ahead
In light of recent concerns about the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, sustained and clear communication from trusted sources is needed to maintain uptake as the evidence evolves Covid-19 has shone a light […]
Covid-19: a strategy to optimise global vaccination coverage
The covid-19 vaccines—with defined mechanisms of action and dosing schedules—that regulatory bodies have approved for use worldwide have been a great success. [1,2] The vaccines’ effectiveness in preventing symptomatic and […]
Covid-19: The lack of vaccine trial data creates another layer of inequality
Vaccines are being rolled out in Latin American for which we have little information beyond press releases The covid-19 vaccine race has highlighted the importance of the equitable distribution of […]
Christina Pagel: A very real danger that covid-19 will become entrenched as a disease of poverty
We must act now to prevent a further widening in wellbeing between poor and rich […]
What is behind the low covid-19 vaccine take-up in some ethnic minorities?
The unequal burden of covid-19 is etched along ethnic and racial lines. [1] While the risks from covid-19 are now better established, mitigation efforts remain insufficient, particularly among more marginalised […]
Lynn Laidlaw: How do we bring data and its outputs to life?
The CVD-COVID-UK consortium’s paper, published today in The BMJ, summarises a remarkable achievement: the data described covers 96% of the population in England and there is a rigorous governance structure […]