• Covid-19: Trump sidelines “lying” CDC from collecting mortality data
• Covid-19: reduced asthma presentations in children
• Covid-19: Data show 5000 fewer hospital admissions for acute coronary syndrome during pandemic
• Covid-19: Doctors in France report case of baby infected in utero
• Lockdown-type measures look effective against covid-19
• Rising to the triple challenge of covid-19, Brexit, and climate change

Covid-19: Trump sidelines “lying” CDC from collecting mortality data

Data on hospital admissions and deaths from covid-19 in the US are no longer being sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), after the Trump administration told hospital officials...

Covid-19: reduced asthma presentations in children

The impact of covid-19 on children will continue for years, affecting them educationally, emotionally, and financially, with indirect effects on their health.1 Children must not be sidelined as we...

Covid-19: Data show 5000 fewer hospital admissions for acute coronary syndrome during pandemic

Around 5000 fewer people were admitted to hospitals in England for acute coronary syndrome than expected from January to the end of May this year, an analysis has shown. The results, published in the...

Covid-19: Doctors in France report case of baby infected in utero

French doctors have reported the case of a 23 year old woman in the last weeks of her first pregnancy who was hospitalised with covid-19 in March and gave birth by caesarean section to a baby boy...

Lockdown-type measures look effective against covid-19

The linked paper by Islam and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.m2743) provides important preliminary evidence for the effectiveness of physical distancing (referred to by some as social distancing)...

Rising to the triple challenge of covid-19, Brexit, and climate change

Anderson and colleagues discuss the need to mitigate the longer term effects of the covid-19 pandemic in an equitable way.1 Plans for the United Kingdom need to tackle the triple public health...