Matt Hancock, the UK health secretary between 2018 and June 2021, acknowledged major deficiencies in the country’s preparedness […]

Taking office in November 2021, US President Joe Biden was immediately confronted by the chaotic nature of his […]

PM was bamboozled and confused over sciencePatrick Vallance, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser (CSA) during the pandemic, […]

Chickenpox was not a helpful analogueGiving evidence on 8 November,1 Mark Sedwill, the former cabinet secretary and head […]

bmj;383/nov06_15/p2594/FAF1faAlan Morris/AlamyScotland’s first memorial sculpture dedicated to NHS staff who worked through the covid-19 pandemic has been voted […]

A toxic and chaotic environment at the heart of government, with distrust between civil servants and political aides, […]

Thank you for highlighting the devastation long covid has wrought on healthcare workers’ lives, including my own.1 I […]

The Eat Out to Help Out scheme, the “rule of six,” and the local tier system introduced in […]

Between 95 000 and 167 000 patients are estimated to have caught covid-19 in England’s hospitals during the […]

Clinicians who led research on long covid from early on in the pandemic and who met government members […]