Data on covid-19 vaccines and treatments should be fully and immediately available for public scrutiny, argue Kamran Abbasi, Fi Godlee and Peter Doshi
The BMJ has locked horns with Facebook and the gatekeepers of international fact checking after one of its investigations was wrongly labelled with “missing context” and censored. Rebecca Coombes and Madlen Davies report
Jan 20
Not following clear evidence and updating the case definition for covid-19 is a failure of government that threatens the effectiveness of the measures we have put in place to control the spread of the disease, writes Maggie Rae
Jan 19
Healthcare professionals must individually and collectively lobby political representatives to demand a thorough, impartial, independent investigation
Jan 17
Finding the right words to describe the pressures facing healthcare services in England right now is difficult. They are certainly not normal. But is the NHS overwhelmed?
Jan 11
It’s difficult not to be angry, as this current surge of cases and burden of suffering was predicted and preventable: we had a chance to flatten this wave, and our government chose instead to do nothing
As omicron spreads across Europe, health professionals and researchers call for concerted European action to address the immediate threat
Jan 13
The number of new covid-19 infections recorded worldwide from 27 December 2021 to 2 January 2022 increased by 71% from the previous week, says the WHO's weekly epidemiological report
