Over 5 weeks from Mar 12th as a group of public health professionals we wrote a series of letters to govt & multiple press commentaries due to our concern about the UK's #COVID19 response. V dismayed many of these issues >3m later are only now starting to be addressed. Thread-1/8 March 17 in @TheLancet we said: "a matter of a few days can prove critical in terms of saving lives & avoiding health system collapse" and called for UK government to urgently share scientific evidence used to inform #COVID19 response thelancet.com/journals/lance… (2/8)

Our letter @thetimes requesting government share scientific evidence behind #COVID19 #publichealth response to retain scientific/healthcare community, and public’s understanding, cooperation and trust @richardhorton1 @Dr2NisreenAlwan @devisridhar @PWGTennant @drannewilson 1/4 “It is imperative to #delay and ‘flatten’ the epidemic curve to ensure the #NHS can cope. This is particularly essential for the UK which according to OECD data, has 2.5 hospital beds per 1000 population- behind Italy (3.2), France (6.0) and the USA (2.8) #FlattenTheCurve 2/4