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Documents from the 29/30th July released by the govt on the 5th of Feb where SAGE warns the govt about the risk of school transmission on the pandemic. The documents warn about outbreaks from schools spreading into the community. Why were these released 6 mnths after publication?
This document, & another one outlines the risk of increased transmission over winter, including a reasonable worst case scenario model carried out on the 29th July but only released on the 5th Feb. The predictions of this model have already been exceeded for hospitalisation peaks
The govt was clearly warned about the risk of a second wave of infections relating to winter, Christmas & school transmission. This advice seems to have been ignored, and not even communicated to the public until after the event. Why? This lack of transparency is very concerning.
Given the warnings from SAGE about transmission from schools spreading back into the community, why were not mitigations considered in schools then- mitigations that could have prevented tens of thousands of cases, and deaths? And why do we still not have these in place?
The govt has clearly not been following scientific advice, at a *huge* cost to public health. They were warned about what happened over winter. Worryingly, there is absolutely no evidence that they are listening to scientific advice even now, 6 months & >100K deaths later.
