Halting geographic spread of COVID-19
The virus causing COVID-19 spreads readily between people and it is this characteristic that makes...
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Category: Recent reports
Maintaining adherence to protective behaviours during vaccination roll-out
The roll-out of the new Covid-19 vaccines is welcomed. But it is not a ‘silver bullet’. There are...
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A ‘Safe Schools’ policy for re-opening education as soon as possible and mitigating the harms of closure
This paper proposes a ‘safe schools policy’ aimed at mitigating the harms of school closure,...
Read More4th January 2021: New statements on the UK vaccine strategy
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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30th december 2020: emergency statement and call for immediate national lockdown
The pandemic in England is now at the most threatening stage of the entire year. The number of...
Read More24 DECEMBER 2020: emergency statement on new variant of covid-19 And rapidly worsening situation in uk
The situation across the UK, particularly England and Wales, is rapidly worsening. Evidence is now strong that the new variant of Covid-19 (B117) is significantly more infectious than previous strains. This is making a bad...
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UK government messaging on Covid-19: Five principles and recommendations for a COVID communication reset
The UK is currently experiencing a second wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and England began a...
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INDEPENDENT SAGE STATEMENT ON UNIVERSITY WINTER TERM 2020 AND WINTER-SPRING TRANSITIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF SARS-COV-2
On 31st October 2020, Boris Johnson announced new national restrictions in England starting on 5th...
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