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WEEKLY BRIEFING 10th september 2021

10 Sep 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

As a new academic year commences, Professor Alice Roberts hosts a session on the safe return to...

Statement on Universities and Colleges Autumn 2021 in the Context of SARS-CoV-2

10 Sep 2021 | Education, Recent reports

Universities are large workplaces and organizations with a public mission. Their impact on the...

how can we safely re-open live events?

6 Sep 2021 | Mitigation measures, Recent reports

Following the recent publication of an analysis from the Events Research Programme on the impact...

CHRISTINA PAgel speaks to bbc

4 Sep 2021 | Media highlights, Vaccines & variants

Professor Christina Pagel speaks to the BBC about the JCVI decision not to vaccinate 12-15 year...

WEEKLY BRIEFING 3RD SEPTEMBER 2021

3 Sep 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

Independent SAGE hosts a discussion on the return to work and school, with presentations from...

September 2021: Protecting People at Work: The COVID-19 Safe Workplace Charter

3 Sep 2021 | Lockdowns, Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Recent reports, Short statements

September 2021: Protecting People at Work: The COVID-19 Safe Workplace Charter Just over a year ago, on 27th August 2020, Independent SAGE, in conjunction with The HazardsCampaign, published our ‘COVID-19 Safe Workplace Carter...

September 2021: An Urgent Plan for Safer Schools

3 Sep 2021 | Education, Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Recent reports, Short statements

Independent SAGE released its first schools report in May 2020, updated for the return to school inSeptember 2020. Most of the recommendations we made then remain highly relevant a year later,including advice on bubbles,...

COVID SAFETY CODES OF PRACTICE

3 Sep 2021 | Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Recent reports

Why do we need Covid Safety Codes of Practice? Everyone in society can play a role in minimising Covid infection rates while permitting individualsand society to function effectively. National Governments play a pivotal role in...

WEEKLY BRIEFING 27th august 2021

31 Aug 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

Alok Jha hosts Independent SAGE, with a discussion on the latest numbers from Professor Christina Pagel, and how people can take precautions in the coming weeks to protect themselves from coronavirus. See the latest numbers...

WEEKLY BRIEFING 20TH AUGUST 2021

20 Aug 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

This week Independent SAGE discussed a report on mitigation measures presented by Professor Liz...

(How) can we reach herd immunity?

20 Aug 2021 | Recent reports

The term ‘herd immunity’ first found its way into the UK’s public consciousness very early on in...

FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE – A TIMELINE

20 Aug 2021 | Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy

A new report compares the advice from SAGE and Independent SAGE with government advice on key...

Zubaida haque speaks to gmb

13 Aug 2021 | Media highlights

Dr Zubaida Haque spoke to Good Morning Britain about the need to keep mass testing. Watch the clip...

WEEKLY BRIEFING 13TH AUGUST

13 Aug 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

This week Independent SAGE discussed the latest developments in the pandemic, with the latest...

WEEKLY BRIEFING 6TH AUGUST

13 Aug 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

This week, Independent SAGE was joined by special guests Sally Zlotowitz and Yolanda Lear to...

Christina pagel speaks to bbc

4 Aug 2021 | Media highlights

Professor Christina Pagel speaks to Hugh Pym about the surprising drop in coronavirus cases. You...

‘pingdemic is not the problem’ Stephen reicher writes in the guardian

26 Jul 2021 | Media highlights, Overall COVID-19 Strategy

‘The “pingdemic” is nothing more than a distraction to divert from the real, underlying issues: the government’s failure to address spiralling infections, and its pursuit of policies that exacerbate this problem.’ Professor Stephen Reicher writes in the Guardian. Read the full article here

Anthony Costello writes about global vaccination in new statesman

26 Jul 2021 | Media highlights, Vaccines & variants

‘G7 countries are guilty of both hoarding vaccines and blocking others from producing them at scale, a moral and geopolitical failure that lower income countries will not forget.’ Professor Anthony Costello writes in The New Statesman. Read full article here

WEEKLY BRIEFING 23RD JULY 2021

23 Jul 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

Independent SAGE hosted a discussion on Long Covid, with special guests Danny Altmann, Professor...

Martin Mckee writes in BMJ on the case for an urgent public inquiry into pandemic response

21 Jul 2021 | Media highlights, Overall COVID-19 Strategy

“One might hope that the politicians who presided over the situation would show some curiosity about what went wrong. After all, the pandemic is not yet over.” Martin McKee writes in the BMJ. Read full article here

‘History is being made’ GAbriel scally writes about dangers of UK’s new covid strategy in the new statesman

19 Jul 2021 | Media highlights, Vaccines & variants

Professor Gabriel writes in the New Statesman about why the government’s policy of standing back and letting the virus reproduce is a recipe for disaster. Read the full article here

Why social solidarity is still needed

18 Jul 2021 | Find, Test, Trace, Isolate, Support, Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy

It’s widely recognised that social solidarity in the public has been essential in combating the...

Kit yates writes on herd immunity in the bmj

16 Jul 2021 | Media highlights

How many people need to have immunity before the virus will start to die out? Dr Kit Yates writes about herd immunity in the BMJ. Read the article here

weekly briefing 16th july 2021

16 Jul 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

Independent SAGE discusses the government’s plans to lift all remaining restrictions on 19th...

zubaida haque speaks to sky news about the problems of ‘living with the virus’

16 Jul 2021 | Media highlights

Sky News discussion between Dr Zubaida Haque and Professor Carl Heneghan about what “living...

martin mckee talks to arirang news centre

16 Jul 2021 | Media highlights

Professor Martin McKee speaks to Arirnag News Centre about the race between Covid variants and the...

‘Delta has changed the equation’ – Christina Pagel quoted in Reuters story on ‘freedom day’

15 Jul 2021 | Media highlights

Professor Christina Pagel was interviewed by Reuters about the risks of UK’s ‘so-called Freedom Day’. Read the full story here

government messaging is undermining covid response – Stephen reicher writes in BMJ

13 Jul 2021 | Media highlights, Overall COVID-19 Strategy

All the changes currently being made amount to a massive disinformation campaign that undermines the conditions for informed decision-making, writes Professor Stephen Reicher in the BMJ. Read full article here

Herd immunity PLAN ‘completely wrong’ – Sir David King quoted in Daily express

13 Jul 2021 | Media highlights, Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy

Former chief scientific adviser and chair of Independent SAGE Sir David King gave his support to an open letter signed by more than 1,000 UK scientists in the Lancet criticising plans to remove all restrictions next week as ‘dangerous and unethical’. Read full article here

INDEPENDENT SAGE response to the government moving to step 4 of the roadmap on 19th July

13 Jul 2021 | Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Short statements

On the 12th of July, Boris Johnson announced that England would be moving to step 4 of the roadmap...

Kit Yates writes on the ‘terrifying power’ of exponential growth in BMJ

13 Jul 2021 | Media highlights, Overall COVID-19 Strategy

Locking down a week earlier in March 2020 would have meant entering lockdown with a quarter of the cases and could have saved tens of thousands of lives. As we face a ‘third wave’, Dr Kit Yates writes about the dangers of allowing exponential growth in the BMJ. Read full article here

Christina Pagel responds to boris johnson announcement on lifting restrictions in the guardian

13 Jul 2021 | Media highlights, Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy

Boris Johnson gave two reasons for lifting all restrictions at his press conference yesterday. Both are wrong, writes Professor Christina Pagel in the Guardian. Read full article here

zubaida haque speaks to sky news

13 Jul 2021 | Media highlights

Sky News discussion between Dr Zubaida Haque and Professor Carl Heneghan about what “living with the virus”, shifting to “personal responsibility” and abandoning facemasks and social distancing in a...

WEekly Briefing 9th July 2021

9 Jul 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

At today’s briefing Professor Christina Pagel presented the latest data showing that...

‘mass infection is not an option.’ Independent SAGE members among scientists publishing open letter to the lancet

7 Jul 2021 | Media highlights, Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy

A coalition of leading scientists and doctors have published a letter in the Lancet criticising the government’s herd immunity ‘experiment’ as ‘dangerous and unethical’. Among the signatories are several members of Independent SAGE. Read the full letter here

SUSAN MICHIE SPEAKS TO GOOD MORNING BRITAIN

6 Jul 2021 | Media highlights

Professor Susan Michie speaks to GMB about delaying the lifting of restrictions. Opening up will...

weekly briefing 2nd july 2021

2 Jul 2021 | Weekly briefings on COVID-19

Professor Alice Roberts hosts a session discussing the safety of mass events, and what we need to...

Statement on the misuse of the Events Research Programme and its Phase 1 findings.

2 Jul 2021 | Lockdowns, Mitigation measures, Short statements

We are writing as fellow scientists to express our profound concerns regarding the misuse of the Events Research Programme and its findings. We share the view that it is important to carry out well-designed research to...