Just for the record: the UK government is deliberately rewriting history in its ongoing COVID-19 disinformation campaign. My Jan 24 tweet called for caution in UK media reporting. It was followed by a series of tweets drawing attention to the dangers of this new disease.

On the same day, I tweeted a series on Lancet publications that emphasised the severity of COVID-19: human-to-human transmission, a critical illness requiring ICU admission, and a virus with “pandemic potential.” Read the article. What is happening now is all there.

On Jan 25, the next day, I drew attention to the issue of ICU capacity and asked why there was no discussion of this urgent clinical challenge.

On Jan 26, I tweeted “The needle is moving towards the affirmative” for declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. A PHEIC was declared on Jan 30. The fact is that minsters/scientific advisors failed to understand what was happening in China, despite evidence.