Thread below on released SAGE minutes from Jan-March. Shows that advice was to treat it like flu, unstoppable, & aim to stay within NHS capacity as it spread. Assumed coronavirus could not be contained- by China or any other country. https://twitter.com/devisridhar/status/1266418899408519168
They completely missed that countries could 'crunch' the curve & buy time for a better solution than mass death. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/22/flattening-curve-new-zealand-coronavirus
Crunching the coronavirus curve is better than flattening it, as New Zealand is showing | Devi...

Countries that are actively working to contain coronavirus are buying themselves time, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/22/flattening-curve-new-zealand-coronavirus
Agree with @richardhorton1 that this will go down as the biggest failure in science policy for a generation. SAGE & this govt truly messed up with the result that UK has one of the highest death tolls & many people suffering post-Covid recovery with health problems.
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