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Editorial

Vaccinating against covid-19 in people who report allergies

Most patients can be reassured and vaccinated, say the authors of this editorial

Read our latest coverage of the coronavirus outbreak

NewsCovid-19: Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients after vaccination

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Analysis

Mitigating ethnic disparities in covid-19 and beyond

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Editorial

Care homes: averting market failure in a post-covid-19 world

Testing samples for covid-19

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Covid-19: What new variants are emerging and how are they being investigated?

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Covid-19: Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients after vaccination

The BMJ blogs

Terry McGovern: Sexual and reproductive health and rights under a Biden administration

Gaurab Basu: Our patients are telling us important stories, if we listen carefully

Jane Dacre: Doctors must be protected as pressure on health service grows

Alex Nowbar’s journal review—15 January 2021

Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical words of the 1970s

Nikki Nabavi: Too girly to be a doctor?

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Latest opinion and features

Views & reviews

Pandemic fatigue? How adherence to covid-19 regulations has been misrepresented

Feature

The BMJ interview: Fixing America’s covid response in the Biden era

Editor's choice

Covid 19: Widening divisions will take time to heal

Observations

Immunized? There’s an app for that

Feature

How doctors can help end food insecurity

Views & reviews

David Oliver: Could we do better on hospital acquired covid-19 in a future wave?

Feature

GP life now: problems to tackle, opportunities to grasp, and changes to absorb

Feature

How the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine was made

Editorial

Achieving safer maternity care in the UK

Views & reviews

Helen Salisbury: Respectful disagreement

Views & reviews

Rammya Mathew: Use this moment of crisis to make significant gains in vaccine uptake

Observations

The NHS is not at risk of being overwhelmed—it already is

Editorial

Lung volume reduction for emphysema comes of age

Editorial

Covid-19 has amplified moral distress in medicine

Editor's choice

Speaking truth to power

Editorial

What does the UK-EU trade and cooperation agreement mean for health?

Feature

“In the 1980s NHS there wasn’t today’s climate of fear around speaking out”—Allyson Pollock

Views & reviews

David Oliver: The false dichotomies in pandemic commentary

Feature

Where the mesh inquiry leaves us regarding a register of doctors’ interests

Editorial

Industry self-regulation fails to deliver healthier diets, again

Views & reviews

Why were breastfeeding women in the UK denied the covid-19 vaccine?

Latest news

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Disparity in maternal deaths because of ethnicity is “unacceptable”

News

Covid-19: US immigration enforcement flouts safety guidelines, report claims

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Covid-19: Biden calls for science, vaccines, and masks

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Sixty seconds on . . . covid influencers

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Covid-19: Government uses lateral flow tests to keep children in schools against regulator’s advice

BMJ opinionCovid-19: government must urgently rethink lateral flow test roll out

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Covid-19: Doctors’ leaders call for revised PPE guidance to reflect new variants

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