Covid Protection and Support Strategy: January 2022
Independent SAGECovid Protection and Support Strategy: January 2022 Since December...
Read More7 Jan 2022 | Overall COVID-19 Strategy
Independent SAGECovid Protection and Support Strategy: January 2022 Since December...
Read More5 Jan 2022 | Media highlights
Professor Martin McKee speaks to DW News about the need for a multilayered approach in tackling...
Read More5 Jan 2022 | Media highlights
Professor Martin McKee talks to DW News about Omicron, saying there is no doubt it is causing less...
Read More30 Dec 2021 | Lockdowns, Media highlights
Professor Martin McKee speaks to France 24 about the UK government’s current handling of the...
Read More23 Dec 2021 | Education, Short statements
An emergency Independent SAGE statement: Hundreds of thousands of children have missed some school this term due to contracting Covid. Each case carries risks to their health and wellbeing and disrupts their education. With the...
Read More22 Dec 2021 | Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Short statements, Vaccines & variants
Covid-19 is a global pandemic. It can only be addressed on a global level. As long as the populations of some countries remain unvaccinated, the virus will continue to circulate around the world and new variants will emerge...
Read More21 Dec 2021 | Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Public Inquiry, Short statements
Summary It is vital that inquiries are held into the preparation for and response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such inquiries should be (a) broad, dealing with the range of factors that contributed to the outcomes achieved in the...
Read More20 Dec 2021 | Short statements, Vaccines & variants
Omicron is extremely transmissible. If anyone in a moderately-sized social gathering indoors (e.g., ten people meeting up in a house for Christmas dinner) has Omicron, most people are likely to become infected, regardless of...
Read More17 Dec 2021 | Media highlights
Professor Christina Pagel speaks to Jon Snow from Channel 4 about getting off the track we are on...
Read More17 Dec 2021 | Briefings (presentations & youtube links)
For the final Independent SAGE briefing of 2021, Professor Christina Pagel gave the latest...
Read More16 Dec 2021 | Media highlights
Dr Stephen Reicher speaks to Channel 4 about how, while positive, the booster programme is not...
Read More15 Dec 2021 | Lockdowns, Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Short statements, Vaccines & variants
The first articles alerting the world to a new variant, later designated Omicron, appeared only...
Read More10 Dec 2021 | Short statements, Vaccines & variants
As widely predicted, new variants of COVID-19 continue to emerge. Omicron was first reported from Southern Africa on 24th November, and designated as a new variant by World Health Organization on 26th November. It is...
Read More10 Dec 2021 | Briefings (presentations & youtube links)
Professor Christina Pagel presented the latest data showing that cases are going up across the UK,...
Read More9 Dec 2021 | Media highlights, Vaccines & variants
Dr Zubaida Haque speaks to Sky News about the rapid spread of Omicron variant, Plan B and how...
Read More3 Dec 2021 | Media highlights, Vaccines & variants
Professor Christina Pagel speaks to Sky News about the Omicron variant and why early action,...
Read MoreThis week, Independent SAGE discusses the Omicron variant, with special guest Professor Sheena...
Read More27 Nov 2021 | Media highlights
Prof. Martin McKee spoke to ITV News Podcast about the rise in cases in various European countries and the placement of restrictions in these places.
Read More27 Nov 2021 | Media highlights
“South Africa have been exemplary in how quickly they identified this issue… and they’ve given us a head start”, Prof. Pagel spoke to the Sky News about the new B.1.1.529 variant.
Read More26 Nov 2021 | Briefings (presentations & youtube links), Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Vaccines & variants
The briefing this week started with a presentation on the latest Covid-19 data by Professor...
Read More20 Nov 2021 | Media highlights, Mitigation measures
“I’m really concerned that we seem to have accepted that it doesn’t really matter so much if children get Covid.” Dr. Helen Salisbury quoted in the Independent.
Read More19 Nov 2021 | Briefings (presentations & youtube links)
Today’s briefing started with a presentation by Colin Davis, Professor of Cognitive...
Read More12 Nov 2021 | Briefings (presentations & youtube links)
Today’s briefing included a presentation by Professor Emeritus Robert West on the latest...
Read More11 Nov 2021 | Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Uncategorised
Vaccines and past infection do not provide 100% immunity from Covid-19 so the virus is likely to...
Read More5 Nov 2021 | Briefings (presentations & youtube links), Uncategorised
Today’s briefing included a presentation of the latest figures from Professor Christina...
Read More2 Nov 2021 | Find, Test, Trace, Isolate, Support, Media highlights
‘The government’s coronavirus website still lists the main symptoms of infection as a high temperature, a new continuous cough, and a loss or change in sense of taste or smell… This list hasn’t been revised, even though we know that these aren’t the main symptoms of the delta variant,’ writes Dr Helen Salisbury in the BMJ. Read the full article here
Read More29 Oct 2021 | Briefings (presentations & youtube links)
Today’s session was a collaboration between Independent SAGE and Keep our NHS Public, a...
Read More25 Oct 2021 | Overall COVID-19 Strategy
Covid-19 has exposed and exacerbated profound problems with the UK’s health, care and support...
Read More22 Oct 2021 | Briefings (presentations & youtube links)
Today’s briefing had an international focus with guest experts Scott Greer, Expert Advisor...
Read More22 Oct 2021 | Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Short statements
At his press conference of 20th October 2021, the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, noted the rise...
Read More22 Oct 2021 | Find, Test, Trace, Isolate, Support, Short statements
Independent SAGE has previously identified the risks and inadequacies of the outsourcing of COVID...
Read More14 Oct 2021 | Media highlights
Professor Christina Pagel speaks to Jon Snow from Channel 4 news, giving her reaction to the House...
Read More12 Oct 2021 | Media highlights
Professor Susan Michie talks to the BBC about how we can learn from other countries as we go into...
Read More12 Oct 2021 | Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Short statements
Independent SAGE welcomes today’s report by the Commons Health and Social Care and Science and Technology Committees, “Coronavirus: lessons learned to date”. The report criticises how “the UK approach reflected a consensus...
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