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🚨NEW🚨 'Communicating Science During Covid: Trials, Tribulations & Trolls' Our journalist Manasa in conversation with Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social & Prof Sheena Cruickshank (she/her) on role of Independent SAGE in communicating pandemic science, science comms via social media & more. youtube.com/watch?v=AsZ7dT…

Hello! Our live briefings may have stopped, but we haven't! We've started a (free) Substack - subscribe now to get regular info about all aspects of the pandemic from Indie SAGE members :-) open.substack.com/pub/independen…

New! Stephen Griffin taking us back to pandemic basics: viruses, immunity, mitigations and the future! have a read! open.substack.com/pub/independen…

Covid admissions to hospital in England have fallen again over the most recent week and are as low as they've been since last summer.

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Four years on from our first wave, here is a brilliant examination by Anthony Costello of the failures of the UK pandemic response in 2020 - emphasising that we did NOT need hindsight to have responded differently. open.substack.com/pub/independen…

We've got two new posts this week! Prof Sheena Cruickshank (she/her) disscussing vaccine equity: independentsage.substack.com/p/vaccines-for… and Bob Hawkins with the latest Covid update (TLDR - things still ok for now, but less data). independentsage.substack.com/p/covid-situat…

My new post on Covid in the UK (low), potential for a new wave (high) and potential for a new bird flu pandemic (too high for comfort). open.substack.com/pub/christinap…

Latest covid stats in England from Bob Hawkins here! independentsage.substack.com/p/covid-situat… includes good news on vaccine uptake this spring.

Quick thread on the Astra Zeneca (AZ) covid vaccine since it's been in the news today. TLDR there isn't a new "smoking gun", the AZ vax was one of first and cheapest, it saved millions of lives globally, there are better vax out there now, adapted to new variants 1/9

Elsewhere in the multiverse there's a reality where the next pandemic threat is under control. Here, governments recognised that it was their moral duty to ensure that the suffering and pain of those affected, both directly and indirectly, mattered more than the prior status quo.

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New post from Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social & Prof Sheena Cruickshank (she/her) about the AZ vaccine, based on their New Statesman article this week. open.substack.com/pub/independen…

New post by M explaining the *truth* about the WHO pandemic treaty - including why it's absolutely needed and debunking all the pernicious disinformation going round, including by Farage and others open.substack.com/pub/independen…

This is utterly brilliant, cross-disciplinary, irrefutable, clear, and balanced. What "evidence based Medicine" ought to be...rather than the idolatry surrounding often-flawed RCTs and outright quackery we've been forced to put up with from certain quarters...😉 #MasksWork

New blog post on Trisha Greenhalgh latest opus on masks and airborne disease: open.substack.com/pub/independen…

The best explanation and summary of Long Covid that I've ever read by Trisha Greenhalgh , written to coincide with her brilliant Lancet review out today. tinyurl.com/225bfeu2

A new short piece by me in the BMJ reflecting on the Module 1 report and how "emergency planning" needs to be incorporated into "everyday planning" bmj.com/content/386/bm…