The new variant of concern has fundamentally changed the risk we face and therefore the government’s criteria for moving ahead with the road map have not been met, argue Stephen […]
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Is the government “following the data” on face coverings in schools?
A lack of robust mitigations in schools will contribute significantly to spread of B.1.617.2, say these authors […]
Covid-19 travel plan will let new variants into the UK
The covid-19 vaccination programme, combined with public health measures, have been successful in the UK, leading to restrictions being eased, and plans to reopen international travel. There is however a […]
Cancer must not be the forgotten “C” in the fight against covid-19
Covid-19 has had a personal impact on me. On 29 March 2020, I lost my uncle to covid-19. My colleague Eduard Vrdoljak, while consoling me for my loss, indicated that […]
Conservative management: are we still practising it as we should?
Conservative management is defined as the avoidance of intrusive measures, such as surgery or other invasive procedures, usually with the intent to preserve function or body parts. Historically, in a clinical context, the term […]
Robert Francis: Why clinicians need to change their approach to litigation
A court award of damages to a patient for injury caused by medical treatment is evidence of a failure. Not just a failure to avoid harm—that merely starts a wasteful […]
Putting risks into context: covid-19 vaccines and blood clots
The media around the world have been desperate to help put the risks of blood clots following a covid-19 vaccination into some sort of context. It’s a familiar issue: every […]
Covid-19 and the evolution of scientific publishing
Since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, research on covid-19 has accelerated substantially, as has the speed of its publication. [1] At its core, scientific progress depends on the effective […]
Vasiliy Vlassov: Sputnik V and Russia’s covid-19 vaccine race
The fast development of covid-19 vaccines has been a success story. But, when it comes to the Russian vaccines, this is a success with many failures, writes Vasiliy Vlassov Seventy […]
Thrombosis and bleeding after the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccination
New research gives a better understanding of the excess population risks after immunisation […]