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Covid-19: Schedule breast screening before vaccine or 4 to 6 weeks after to avoid false positives, says guidance

Breast screening appointments should be scheduled to take place before women receive a first dose of covid-19 vaccine […]

March 3, 2021 COVID-19

Covid-19: Universities may need to test students every three days to prevent major outbreaks, say researchers

The emergence of more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 may mean needing to test students every three days to […]

March 3, 2021 COVID-19

Covid-19: Germany struggles with slow uptake of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine

Germany is experiencing a slow uptake of the Oxford AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine, latest figures show. Data up to […]

March 3, 2021 COVID-19

NHS sickness absence during the covid-19 pandemic

How have NHS staff coped faced with thousands of patients with a novel and highly infectious virus, and […]

March 3, 2021 COVID-19

Increasing recruitment into covid-19 trials: fund nursing trials

One can only agree wholeheartedly with Darzi and colleagues’ call for better recruitment into SARS-COV-2 treatment trials.1 Sadly, […]

March 3, 2021 COVID-19

Covid-19 trials: allow recruitment by everyone in healthcare, including those not previously involved in research

Darzi and colleagues are right to highlight research recruitment, because, before the pandemic, research activity had fallen in […]

March 3, 2021 COVID-19

Covid-19: Single dose of Pfizer and Oxford vaccines cuts risk of hospital admission by 80% in over 80s, data suggest

Both the Pfizer BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines are highly effective in reducing covid-19 infections and protecting […]

March 2, 2021 COVID-19

Covid-19: Where are we on vaccines and variants?

Have any new variants emerged?We’ve heard a lot about B.1.1.7 (first detected in the UK), B.1.351 (first detected […]

March 2, 2021 COVID-19

Maurizio Cecconi: one year since Italy’s darkest moment

In 2020, Maurizio Cecconi was labelled one of three “pandemic heroes” by the Journal of the American Medical […]

March 2, 2021 COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2 lateral flow assays for possible use in national covid-19 seroprevalence surveys (React 2): diagnostic accuracy study

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the performance of new lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) suitable for use in a national coronavirus disease […]

March 2, 2021 COVID-19

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