In allowing mass infection, Boris Johnson’s government is pursuing a strategy that will lead to avoidable deaths and long term illness, say this group of authors […]
Currently, there is much discussion of the UK government’s vision to end all covid-19 restrictions in England on 19 July, so-called Freedom Day. This is the endpoint of the UK […]
Daily case rates for new positive covid-19 tests have now reached around 35,000 a day and the government is predicting they could reach as many as 100,000 a day. The […]
Sajid Javid’s policy of “opening up” seems ill-timed. Since his appointment as the new secretary of state for health and social care, on Saturday 26 June, another 100,000 people in […]
The government should stop sleepwalking into the future and provide the NHS with sustained increases in funding to meet unprecedented demand for care The NHS has rightly been praised for […]
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General practices nationally are at breaking point. The current crisis in general practice predates covid-19, but has been intensely magnified by the pandemic. Primary care is rightly called the “Bedrock […]
A lack of robust mitigations in schools will contribute significantly to spread of B.1.617.2, say these authors […]
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 […]
There is an insufficient emphasis on airborne spread of covid-19 in government guidelines for schools, says these authors […]
