Weekly briefing 12 February 2021
In today’s briefing, Professor Christina Pagel presented the latest numbers and Professor...
Read More12 Feb 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19
In today’s briefing, Professor Christina Pagel presented the latest numbers and Professor...
Read More5 Feb 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19
Today’s session started with a presentation of the latest figures from Dr Kit Yates, which...
Read More5 Feb 2021 | Education, Recent reports
Closing schools may be necessary when the pandemic is out of control, but it should always be a...
Read More29 Jan 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19
In today’s briefing, Prof Christina Pagel presented the latest facts and figures about the...
Read More28 Jan 2021 | Inequalities and Ethnic Minorities, Recent reports
One of the background issues that affects how people from minoritised ethnic groups are able to...
Read More27 Jan 2021 | Recent reports
Long COVID – when symptoms of COVID last for many weeks and months – affects people of all ages...
Read More15 Jan 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19
Today Professor Christina Pagel presented the latest numbers showing that cases are falling in all...
Read More15 Jan 2021 | Media highlights
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Read More14 Jan 2021 | Recent reports
The virus causing COVID-19 spreads readily between people and it is this characteristic that makes...
Read More14 Jan 2021 | Recent reports, Vaccines
The roll-out of the new Covid-19 vaccines is welcomed. But it is not a ‘silver bullet’. There are...
Read More12 Jan 2021 | Media highlights
‘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 More12 Jan 2021 | Media highlights
‘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
Read More10 Jan 2021 | Media highlights
‘Compliance hasn’t gone down. You can’t blame people’s behaviour. The rules are a lot laxer this lockdown compared to March.’ Professor Christina Pagel was a guest on Sky News. She explains why this lockdown may not be as effective as the first one and why mass testing won’t be effective without support for self-isolation. Watch a clip here
Read More9 Jan 2021 | Media highlights
Professor Christina Pagel was interviewed by BBC News to discuss the pressure on the NHS,...
Read More9 Jan 2021 | Media highlights
Professor Susan Michie was a guest on BBC Newsnight discussing the current lockdown measures in...
Read More8 Jan 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19
Professor Christina Pagel presented a deep dive into the UK’s current Covid-19 situation,...
Read More8 Jan 2021 | Education, Recent reports
This paper proposes a ‘safe schools policy’ aimed at mitigating the harms of school closure,...
Read More7 Jan 2021 | Media highlights, Uncategorised
‘Until recently, our borders haven’t been the focus of much attention, but they are and will continue to be one of the most important weapons we have in the fight against Covid.’ Dr Kit Yates makes the case for better supervision of arriving travellers in the Huffington Post. Read full article here
Read More6 Jan 2021 | Inequalities and Ethnic Minorities, Media highlights
“The way we stop transmission is to get people self-isolated… people in deprived areas and low-paid jobs, Black and Ethnic Minority people, have been less likely to be able to afford to self-isolate.” Dr Zubaida Haque tells Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight that people have had to make difficult choices between going to unsafe jobs and putting food on the table. Watch a clip here
Read More4 Jan 2021 | Lockdowns, Media highlights
‘The minimum is to go back to where we were in March, which means closing schools, closing universities, don’t leave home, but that on its own is not enough.’ Professor Christina Pagel speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News about the need to protect essential workers and to pay them to isolate where necessary. Watch a clip here
Read More4 Jan 2021 | Media highlights
Kit Yates reacts live to Boris Johnson’s announcement of a new stringent lockdown for...
Read More4 Jan 2021 | Lockdowns, Media highlights
‘We have been wanting this for some time but it’s disappointing that the government is in this reactive mode. They seem to wait until the very last moment, until the crisis is breaking on us, before they take the necessary action.’ Professor Gabriel Scally gives his reaction to announcement of a new lockdown on BBC News. Watch a clip here
Read More4 Jan 2021 | Media highlights
‘The pandemic seems to be teaching us that no matter how bad you think it is, it can always get worse.’ Professor Christina Pagel is interviewed on Sky News about the South African variant of Covid-19, why we need to step up border controls and testing at airports and the need for greater transparency about the UK vaccine strategy. Watch a clip here
Read More4 Jan 2021 | Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Recent reports, Short statements, Vaccines
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...
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