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Research from The BMJ FreeUpdated 29 May
Characterization and clinical course of 1000 patients with covid-19
Patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 faced major morbidity and mortality, with high rates of acute kidney injury and inpatient dialysis
Scope, quality, and inclusivity of clinical guidelines produced early in the covid-19 pandemic
Clinical guidelines written in the early covid-19 pandemic possessed methodological weaknesses
Features of 20 133 patients in hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol
Obesity, chronic kidney disease, and liver disease were associated with increased hospital mortality
Factors associated with hospital admission and critical illness
Age, heart failure, male sex, chronic kidney disease, and obesity were associated with development of critical illness
Incidence, clinical outcomes, and transmission dynamics of severe coronavirus disease 2019
The probabilities of ICU admission, of long hospital stay, and of mortality were identified to be high in this study
Psychological effects of emerging virus outbreaks on healthcare workers
What can we learn from previous outbreaks about how to mitigate psychological distress
Prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of covid-19 infection
Existing prediction models are poorly reported, at high risk of bias, and their reported performance is probably optimistic
Viral load dynamics and disease severity in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2
Patients with severe disease showed longer duration of SARS-CoV-2 in respiratory samples, higher viral load, and a later shedding peak
Use of all cause mortality to quantify the consequences of covid-19
All cause mortality represents an important metric to quantify the burden of a pandemic
Hydroxychloroquine in patients with mainly mild to moderate covid-19
Hydroxychloroquine did not help patients clear the virus more quickly than standard care
Latest from The BMJ FreeUpdated 2 June
News and Features
Doctors need proper mental health support, says BMA
Nearly a third of doctors have reported that mental health conditions linked to their work have been made worse by the covid-19 pandemic
Anosmia: Five minutes with ENT consultant Claire Hopkins
Surgeon offers advice to doctors seeing patients
The doctors turned YouTubers
Medical professionals YouTube channels have become vital sources of public information
Research on covid-19 is suffering “imperfect incentives at every stage”
The rush to publish and report during the pandemic is compromising quality
Covid-19: How does the NHS test and trace service work?
How will the new system work?
Charities call for clear advice after “utter mess” of shielding texts
Incorrect communications have caused chaos
Editorials
Children are being sidelined by covid-19
They must not be left behind in its aftermath
Shielding from covid-19 should be stratified by risk
Lockdown is damaging lives; stratified shielding could help get us out
Covid-19: ensuring equality of access to testing for ethnic minorities
Programmes must ensure that “hard to reach” groups are no longer hardly reached
Opinion
Less privileged in society are suffering the brunt of the damage
We need to look after ourselves and each other
We must learn from the experiences of people who have had covid-19
Don’t forget that behind every study and statistic is a person
Some good must come out of covid-19
On returning to normality, we must learn and retain positive interventions
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Our politicians have shown world beating incompetence in their response to the pandemic
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Only a third of the excess deaths seen in the community in England and Wales can be explained by covid-19
- Covid-19: Questions of conscience and duty for scientific advisers
But what happens when the government’s integrity no longer matches your own
- For 7 weeks I have been through a roller coaster of ill health, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion
Paul Garner discusses his experience of having covid-19
- Covid-19: Testing testing
The UK locked down late and too gradually
Latest from BMJ Journals FreeUpdated 2 June
Research
Acute myocardial injury is common in patients with COVID-19 and impairs their prognosis
Heart
A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers
BMJ Open
Baseline use of hydroxychloroquine in systemic lupus erythematosus does not preclude SARS-CoV-2 infection
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Clinicopathological characteristics of 8697 patients with COVID-19 in China
Family medicine and community health
Characteristics of ischaemic stroke associated with COVID-19/a>
Wider covid-19 coverage
Reflections on leadership in the time of COVID-19
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
COVID-19: time for paradigm shift in the nexus between local, national and global health
BMJ Global Health
A fatal case of COVID-19 pneumonia occurring in a patient with severe acute ulcerative colitis
Gut
The tobacco industry in the time of COVID-19: time to shut it down?
Tobacco Control
Consensus for prevention and management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for neurologists
Stroke and Vascular Neurology
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