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Updated 18 May

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Research from The BMJ FreeUpdated 15 May

Clinical efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with covid-19

Research does not support use of hydroxychloroquine in patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 who require oxygen

Hydroxychloroquine in patients with mainly mild to moderate covid-19

Hydroxychloroquine did not help patients clear the virus more quickly than standard care

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

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

Latest from The BMJ FreeUpdated 18 May

News and Features

Mental health services must be boosted to deal with “tsunami” of cases after lockdown

Mental health should be a “core element” of the response to covid-19

Hancock is urged to make testing strategy clearer

The UK Statistics Authority has urged the government to make its strategy clearer

How can I break bad news remotely?

Doctors share their advice on how to speak to patients when you can’t see them face-to-face

Ethics of reallocating ventilators in the covid-19 pandemic

How to protect vulnerable populations when making ethically fraught decisions

Covid-19 pandemic has derailed progress on sustainable development goals, says WHO

Rate of progress towards the SDGs is too slow

Pandemic exposes inequalities in global food systems

Covid-19 has exposed the vulnerability and weaknesses of already fragile global food systems

Editorials

The UK’s public health response to covid-19

Too little, too late, too flawed

Integrating implementation science into covid-19 response and recovery

We need an implementation science approach more than ever

Waste in covid-19 research

A deluge of poor quality research is sabotaging an effective evidence based response

Opinion

Covid-19—will this second phase be harder than the first?

We need to look after ourselves and each other

The duty to treat: where do the limits lie?

Does a point come when health professionals have a right not to treat seriously ill patients if their PPE is inadequate?

Rigorous investigation of healthcare workers’ deaths is indispensable

We must learn lessons and take action to save lives

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