7 lessons Boris Johnson didn’t learn from the first lockdown.
Gabriel Scally is quoted in the Huffington Post.

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Blaming Covid ‘rule-breakers’ is a distraction: support is needed, not fines: Stephen Reicher comment piece in The Guardian.

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‘Lockdown is a very blunt instrument but we’re left with no choice’ Sir David King interviewed on BBC News.

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Gabriel Scally talks to Sky News about why we need a ‘complete revamp’ of the Test & Trace system.

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Christina Pagel discussed the latest situation and measures in Europe and what this might mean for England with Emily Maitliss on BBC Newsnight.

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Zubaida Haque was a guest on Good Morning Britain, discussing the challenges faced by minorty ethnic communities during the Covid pandemic.

Watch the a segment on over-exposure here

And a segment on inadequate government response here

Christina Pagel and Stephen Reicher were interviewed on Channel 4 News about whether circuit breakers are needed in England, whether we need national or regional restrictions and how to rebuild social solidarity.

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Susan Michie was a panellist on Good Morning Britain where she argued strongly for the need for a “circuit break” to stop and reverse the spread of COVID-19 in the UK.

Watch her put her case here .

Read our 16th October emergency plan here .

‘The science is clear: attaining herd immunity to coronavirus via uncontrolled infection is a fringe view, peddled by a minority with no evidence to back up their position.’ Joint opinion piece in The Guardian by Professor Martin McKee, Professor Trish Greenhalgh and Dr Michelle Kelly-Irving.
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‘If you’re going to do a circuit breaker, do it quickly before things get out of control.’ Anthony Costello speaks to Matt Frei on LBC Radio.

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Martin McKee was interviewed on Channel 4 News about the John Snow Memorandum published in the...

Anthony Costello talks about the ‘false dichotomy’ between health and the economy on Sky News.

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Kit Yates was inteviewed by BBC News, giving his reaction to the latest government tiers announced to tackle rising COVID-19 cases across the country.

Listen to the full interview here .

Christina Pagel was a guest on BBC’s More or Less programme where she discussed the lost 16,000 cases from NHS Test and Trace last week and also whether we in a current second wave

Listen to a clip about a second wave here .

Full show is here .

Gabriel Scally forcefully responds to Lord Sumption’s suggestion that we should allow under 60’s to get COVID in a population immunity strategy.

Watch the full clip from BBC Newsnight here .

Karl Friston makes the case for urgent improvement of contact tracing in the British Medical Journal as the way to avoid worst-case scenarios for COVID-19 this winter.

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Martin McKee was interviewed on CNN about what we can learn from how different countries have responded to COVID-19.

Watch the full interview here .