COVID-19

As the nation seeks to return to a maskless, congregate 'normal,' the brutal virus is still out there, and repeated infections seem linked to longterm health problems.

Long COVID can produce a wide variety of symptoms and severities, which makes it hard to detect, diagnose, and treat.

Five years after the pandemic, COVID continues to disproportionately impact women.

Five years of experience with Covid-19 has provided substantial evolving evidence on Long Covid, which is reviewed here to assess risk and the necessary proportionate prevention-and-management response.

Opinion: Kevin Kavanagh, MD, examines a summary of studies on how COVID-19 may damage the brain's frontal lobes, alter personality traits and cognitive functions, and potentially reshape society's dynamics.

Dr Aspa Paltoglou (pictured), a Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, on continuing to take pandemic precautions.

Exclusive: Medics more sleep deprived now than during Covid crisis amid staff shortages and surging demand

What if the pandemic safety net cobbled together in 2020 had been a new beginning? What if when Joe Biden came into office in 2021, the Covid-19 safety net he was handed had become a new floor? Wha…

A mental health professional gives reasons why someone might still wear a mask when the pandemic is over and answers whether it is because of anxiety or fear.

Universities are supposedly society’s proponents of evidence-based decision making. And yet, increasingly we’re seeing university administrators citing scholarship when it supports predetermined positions and ignoring that scholarship when it proves inconvenient to economic and political goals. Are university leaders undermining the credibility of the institutions they are charged with leading?

Dr Aspa Paltoglou hears from physician Dr David Joffe about what’s needed from our discipline; from Janina Bradshaw about what Psychotherapists can do; and from occupational therapist Kirsty Stanley.

The end of the last remaining Covid protections deepens the categorical exclusion of the vulnerable.

Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism   Christine Mitchell   I’m tired. We’re all tired, collectively. It has been a long two years of heightened anxiety and isolation as w…

Disability Visibility is a column on being disabled in a nondisabled world.

ANALYSIS: As a community, we talk a good talk about keeping each other safe, so why aren’t we doing it now?

Long COVID is an often debilitating illness of severe symptoms that can develop during or following COVID-19. In this Review, Davis, McCorkell, Vogel and Topol explore our knowledge of long COVID and highlight key findings, including potential mechanisms, the overlap with other conditions and potential treatments. They also discuss challenges and recommendations for long COVID research and care.