The Independent Sage will meet for the first time today at 12pm. Watch live here: youtube.com/channel/UCqqwC…
Professor Gabriel Scally, President of Epidemiology & Public Health section, Royal Society of Medicine; current advisor to the government of Ireland.
Professor Elias Mossialos, Professor of Health Policy, London School of Economics, advisor to Greek government.
Professor Anthony Costello, Director of the Institute for Global Health, University College London.; former Director at WHO.
Professor Allyson Pollock, co-director of the Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science.
Dr Zubaida Haque, Deputy Director Runnymede Trust. Commissioner on the Women’s Budget Group Commission on a Gender-Equal Economy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Professor Karl Friston FRS, computational modeller and neuroscientist at UCL in charge of developing a generative SEIR COVID19 model.
Professor Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, member of SPI(B), SAGE sub-committee.
Professor Deenan Pillay, Professor of Virology UCL, former SAGE member.
Professor Kamlesh Khunti, Professor of Primary Care & Diabetes, University of Leicester.
Professor Christina Pagel, mathematician and professor of operational research, UCL.
Clifford Martin McKee, CBE, is professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr Alison Pittard, Dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, UK.
Chaired by Sir David Anthony King, Emeritus Professor in physical chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.
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Live now: We are one year into the pandemic. What could we have done differently? With latest figures from @chrischirp. Join us. pscp.tv/w/cyNN1TFNV0V3…
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"The alternative to vigorous suppression of this virus is a continued experience for all patients of healthcare being provided in a way that's fundamentally transformed by the infection control measures you have to have in place to stop transmission of covid." @doctor_oxford
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1/ First up, @Kit_Yates_Maths: "I have an 80 year old dad and a 70 year old step-mum, so we're taking the decision not to see them, even though it's legally allowed. For me, the risk is too great."
2/ @GabrielScally: "We'll see one of my daughters in the garden or outside somewhere... we've come through so much this year, it would be so wrong to risk anything at this point in time."
In case you missed our livestreamed briefing earlier, here's @Kit_Yates_Maths brilliant presentation of the latest figures. Warning: if you're in the mood for festive cheer, look away now. Thread 1/15
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'Even the toughest set of measures (Tier 3) is not enough to slow the virus down, which is extremely worrying' @Kit_Yates_Maths