Independent SAGE is a group of scientists who are working together to provide independent scientific advice to the UK government and public on how to minimise deaths and support Britain’s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.
We believe openness and transparency leads to better understanding and better decision making. We also believe it the responsibility of scientists and those with specialist knowledge to engage with the public and policy makers, in order to ensure that science benefits all of society.
Every Friday at 1.30pm we hold a public live-streamed briefing giving UK COVID-19 updates and answering questions from the public and the press. You can watch all of our public briefings on our YouTube Channel .
Follow us on Twitter to find out topics of the week and submit questions for the scientists.
For media enquiries, please email Zack King.
Media Highlights
Sir David King: We could have prevented 75.000 coronavirus deaths in the UK
15 Jan 2021
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Read MoreChristina pagel writes in the guardian about the grim truth unfolding in britain’s hospitals
12 Jan 2021
‘This is an account of what it truly means for a hospital to be “overwhelmed”. Much of this is happening already, but we have not yet seen the worst.’ Professor Christina Pagel writes in the The Guardian about the difficult choices doctors and nurses will face in the coming weeks as hospital capacity is stretched to the limit. Read full article here
Read MoreSusan michie on Good morning britain discussing how government policies are creating super-spreader events
12 Jan 2021
‘On the one hand we’re being told this is an emergency, and that is what it is, and on the other we’ve got a ‘lockdown lite’ compared to March.’ Professor Susan Michie was a guest on Good Morning Britain where she discussed mixed messaging from the government and the need to address ‘huge amounts of contact between people’. Watch a clip here
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Recent Reports
Halting geographic spread of COVID-19
Jan 14, 2021
The virus causing COVID-19 spreads readily between people and it is this characteristic that makes...
Read MoreMaintaining adherence to protective behaviours during vaccination roll-out
Jan 14, 2021
The roll-out of the new Covid-19 vaccines is welcomed. But it is not a ‘silver bullet’. There are...
Read MoreA ‘Safe Schools’ policy for re-opening education as soon as possible and mitigating the harms of closure
Jan 8, 2021
This paper proposes a ‘safe schools policy’ aimed at mitigating the harms of school closure,...
Read More4th January 2021: New statements on the UK vaccine strategy
Jan 4, 2021
Today, Independent SAGE has released two short documents about the UK vaccine strategy. The first document “Will new variants compromise vaccines?” discusses the risk that new variants of Covid-19 pose to the...
Read More30th december 2020: emergency statement and call for immediate national lockdown
Dec 30, 2020
The pandemic in England is now at the most threatening stage of the entire year. The number of...
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