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Research from The BMJ FreeUpdated 31 July
Drug treatments for covid-19
Glucocorticoids probably reduce mortality and mechanical ventilation in patients with covid-19 compared with standard care
Physical distancing interventions and incidence of covid-19
Physical distancing interventions were associated with reductions in the incidence of covid-19 globally
Diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19
Lack of evidence to show tests are effective
Use of PPE against covid-19 by healthcare professionals in China
Frontline healthcare professionals who were appropriately protected did not contract infection
Kawasaki-like multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children during the covid-19 pandemic
Kawasaki-like multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection has characteristics that differ from those of classic Kawasaki disease
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
Latest from The BMJ FreeUpdated 6 August
News and Features
Covid-19: Should the UK be aiming for elimination?
Is a covid-19 elimination strategy feasible?
US needs a national plan to fight rising infections, experts say
Three scientific organisations have proposed plans for the US to gain control of the pandemic
Covid-19: Where are we on immunity and vaccines?
Elisabeth Mahase looks at what we know so far
Leicester lockdown: could better data have prevented it?
As further local restrictions are announced, this does not bode well for future covid-19 surges
Covid-19: UK hospitals to get rapid tests from September
The UK government has spent £161m on 5.8 million covid-19 testing kits
Covid-19: NHS Test and Trace must improve for schools to reopen safely, say researchers
The current NHS Test and Trace programme in England must significantly improve
Editorials
Behavioural, environmental, social, and systems interventions against covid-19
These critical interventions should be top not bottom of the covid-19 research agenda
Cellular immune responses to covid-19
T cells could be valuable allies in pandemic control
Long term respiratory complications of covid-19
Substantial population morbidity is likely
Opinion
Logistic toxicity in time of covid-19
Little gets said about the exhausting administrative burden that patients face
The rush to create a covid-19 vaccine may do more harm than good
The rush could prove fatal to global public health
The United States needs a formal inquiry into our public health catastrophe
We need to produce a blueprint for preventing something similar from happening in the future
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COVID-19 and metabolic syndrome: could diet be the key?
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Clinical course of COVID-19 in a series of patients with chronic arthritis
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
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Neurological manifestations of the coronavirus
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
Evidence-based medicine and COVID-19
Emergency Medicine Journal
Awake prone positioning in COVID-19
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