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A simple head-to-head trial would resolve this conflict once and for all.
Symptoms like loss of smell and taste are powerful predictors of COVID-19 infections.
Coronavirus is hitting some communities harder than others. But a lack of very basic data categorisation means it’s difficult for the UK government to tailor its response.
If you think the global south is fairing well during the pandemic, you haven’t been paying attention.
Lockdown requires that we all act as if we know nothing, even if we are world experts on disease transmission.
Sexually active men should consider wearing condoms during the pandemic.
Despite criticism, the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app seems well designed.
COVID-19 can attack your gastrointestinal tract, and those with symptoms such as diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting may have a worse version of the disease.
Over-active immune response might be behind higher rates of life-threatening COVID-19 infections in patients with obesity.
There are two principles governments use to make public health decisions, and on mask-wearing they’re in direct conflict.
Physiotherapists can help patients during and after coronavirus infections.
A test that tells you with 94% accuracy that you have had coronavirus seems like a game-changer…until you do the maths.
Politicians are throwing billions of dollars at coronavirus vaccine trials, but the real cost of research is the one thing we’re lacking – time.
There is spare testing capacity. Why isn’t it being used?
Patients with kidney disease may also have heart problems or diabetes – both of which have been linked with more severe COVID-19 infections.
Case numbers are very low, but parents should be be alert for symptoms.
If the UK relaxes social distancing now, while most of the population is still susceptible, it runs the very real risk of a second wave.
People with heart conditions at higher risk of severe COVID-19. But coronavirus appears to affect the heart directly, too.
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Manchester
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Professor in Viral Immunology, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Research Fellow in Virology, University of Leeds
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Principal Lecturer, Microbiology and Biomedical Science Practice, Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science, University of Brighton
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Clinical Research Fellow in Viral Immunology and Veterinary Surgeon, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
