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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-52823510?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk&link_location=live-reporting-story

I just came across this earlier tweet from Anthony Costello: I can’t understand why there haven’t been more calls like this for these advisors to resign or be sacked. They have proven to be dangerously incompetent. Isn’t it a scandal that they still in charge?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-publishes-sage-minutes You can find the SAGE minutes here: https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?organisations[]=scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies&parent=scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies The...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/29/shielding-impossible-coronavirus-testing-and-tracing

Thread split from Coronavirus Worldwide Spread and Control https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/29/shielding-impossible-coronavirus-testing-and-tracing

New SAGE evidence has been made public today, including the SPI-M-O consensus view on the impact of interventions from February 3...

I’ve been reading more of the minutes of The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) meetings that I recently posted on here. NERVTAG were asked by the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR) to answer the following question: What are the most effective personal...

This document appears to now have been unredacted. I believe it was section 3 that was originally redacted if I remember correctly. ETA: I’ve just seen this explanation on the SAGE website:

The following opinion piece on the Guardian website is very much along the lines of what you were saying here @Woolie (you could have written it yourself!). It’s refreshing to see that the article is actually written by a behavioural scientist on the SAGE committee! :thumbup...

New document released: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/884171/FINAL_6.6637_CO_HMG_C19_Recovery_FINAL_110520_v2_WEB__1_.pdf (not recommended!)

As mentioned, I have reviewed the advice that The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) gave on air travel into the UK which I have attempted to summarise in this post. The topic of “port of entry screening” was discussed at the very first Covid-19 NERVTAG meeting...

I found the minutes from the meetings of The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG). NERVTAG are one of the expert groups advising the UK government on the Covid-19 response. The minutes are quite enlightening - it looks like NERVTAG had a significant role in...

SAGE appear to have advised against very stringent interventions on the assumption that these would likely be followed by a large epidemic (which apparently wouldn’t happen with less strict interventions): They were even so confident to state that “the scale and timings of the epidemic curves...

The following is from the SAGE document “Potential effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on a Covid-19 epidemic in the UK 26th February 2020” dated 26th February 2020: ? (!)...

I’ve been looking at the SAGE modelling group document “Consensus view on the impact of mass school closures” dated 19th February 2020 One of the conclusions of this document that surprised me was: I can’t understand understand how they came to that conclusion. Is anyone able to explain? I...

It turns out that the above list was only for members of the main SAGE group and didn’t include all the many names of those in subcommittees, including SPI-B (the subcommittee on behavioural and social interventions). Simon Wessely is still not on the list but take note that four participants...

That’s all the interview responses now transcribed. As someone with severe ME, this latter part of the interview does not reflect my experience at all. I’m very concerned that the interview might leave people with the wrong impression about the abilities and needs of many people with ME...

Transcription continued (Catherine Hale’s responses to interview questions): I’m over halfway through so I’ll keep going with the transcribing until I get to the end...

Catherine Hale has been on Radio 4’s You and Yours programme today discussing this research. She herself has suffered from ME for 30 years. The section starts about 23.5 minutes into the programme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hws5 If I find the energy I will type up some more of it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/revealed-the-secret-report-that-gave-ministers-warning-of-care-home-coronavirus-crisis