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"I do not see the names of prominent consultants in communicable disease control at the top table...I have a feeling this is a systematic thing [resulting from] top down control." Expert @Doctorshaib tells @afuahirsch & @paulmasonnews on the #Covid Report

. #coronavirus #Covid19 https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1248159311458598913

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1248159311458598913

This claim that top scientists in the field aren’t advising the govt is worrying as is the top down nature of the UK’s #COVID19 strategy.

It’s led by a @B_I_Tweets behaviourist
whose nudge philosophy is about “how small changes can make big differences.”
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1240591367488897024?s=21 https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1240591367488897024

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1240591367488897024?s=21

"We're still making it up as we go along! Our scientific advisory committees are full of behavioural scientists & mathematical modelers. They've failed to bring in the communicable disease experts & public health experts.” @AllysonPollock on govt #COVID19 response. #coronavirus.

“It’s a circular argument. The modellers don't include one of the key components of infection control [testing & contract tracing] because of political constraints & then the politicians then say 'we are following the science'" @DeenanDpillay on #COVID19 & scientific illiteracy.

According to @Doctorshaib, the govt should invite a more diverse range of experts around the top table rather than just modellers & academics. This could be done immediately.

Ystdy, CMA denied that post-lockdown modelling only began in mid-March. #COVID19 https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1248294463694307330?s=21 https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1248294463694307330

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“We have to manage the outbreaks of #coronavirus in different parts of the country, locally. We need local action teams contact tracing meticulously & ‘cordons sanitaires’ protecting those populations.” Director of IPH, @AllysonPollock, offering a #Covid19 lockdown exit strategy.

The best exit strategy from lockdown “would require an unprecedented action by the govt is an aggressive test, trace, isolate strategy, prof @devisridhar tells @krishgm.

She has called it right on #COVID19 from the start & govt shld invite her to advise.

QUESTION TO SCIENTISTS:

Until now, UK govt #COVID19 strategy has been shaped by behavioural scientists & mathematical modellers.

Who else should be invited to what @Doctorshaib calls ‘the top table’?

Which virologists & public health experts would help us tackle #coronavirus?

“So many people have died b/c politicians refused to listen to advice.” Professor Ward, leading UK virologist.

“If you go hard late, as UK has done, you can just see what carnage you suffer,” Professor Murphy Australia’s Chief Medical Officer. #COVID19
https://twitter.com/profhelenward/status/1249477624361033736?s=21 https://twitter.com/profhelenward/status/1249477624361033736

https://twitter.com/profhelenward/status/1249477624361033736?s=21

Boris Johnson says he’s “guided by the science” on coronavirus. The trouble is, no one knows what the science is.

@sarahwollaston “You can’t challenge the advice if other experts can’t see what they are looking at.” @martinlan
@_StephenCastle in @nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/world/europe/uk-coronavirus-sage-secret.html

Dominic Cummings & Ben Warner (a data scientist he worked with on the Vote Leave campaign) have been part of the ‘independent’ scientific group (SAGE) advising govt on the #coronavirus pandemic, according to a leaked list. #BREAKING #BREAKINGNEWS #COVID19 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-dominic-cummings-on-secret-scientific-advisory-group-for-covid-19

Revealed: Dominic Cummings on secret scientific advisory group for Covid-19

Exclusive: Leaked list reveals presence of Johnson adviser and Vote Leave ally on supposedly independent body

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-dominic-cummings-on-secret-scientific-advisory-group-for-covid-19

A lot of behaviourists & modellers in SAGE.

Prof Medley (on #herdimmunity) said he’d like to “put all the more vulnerable people into the north of Scotland...& everybody else into Kent & have a nice, big epidemic in Kent, so that everyone becomes immune”.

Three days ago, @GrahamMedley, the govt’s chief pandemic modeller & member of SAGE, tweeted:

“Scientists advise, ministers decide.”

He also RTed: “In politics, admitting a mistake is a form of weakness. It’s quite the opposite in science.”

Could this be about #HerdImmunity?

“The scientists give you the facts. It is irresponsible to say this is all the fault of @CMO_England. He did not chose that strategy. His job is to advise the govt. The PM’s job is to chose the strategy.”

This was @RoryStewartUK.

6 WEEKS AGO! #Covid19

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