Month: January 2021

Professor Stephen Reicher was a guest on BBC Newsnight where he explained that compliance levels with lockdown measures are ‘remarkably high’. The problem is that too many people are still being forced to go out to work. Watch a clip here

‘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

‘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

‘Throughout the pandemic, reaction rather than prevention has been the hallmark of the government’s Covid response.’ Professor Gabriel Scally writes in The Guardian about the government’s failure to formulate a long-term plan. Read full article here