They said: “While it is quite right to propose that people get vaccinated, tested and observe COVID safeguards, it is quite wrong to suggest that they do so on their own. Have your say: When will England's remaining COVID restrictions be lifted? The scientists said this attitude is “dangerous” since it puts the emphasis on the public and off what the government must do.įlu could be a bigger problem than COVID this winter, expert warns In a paper published on its website last week, the group attacked comments made by the prime minister about people needing to use their own “common sense” during the pandemic. The group of scientists who make up the unofficial Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergenices (Sage) have also taken this line of argument in the past. “The harms of lockdown are huge and we now have vaccines, testing, and isolation measures to avoid blanket restrictions.” We must get things in order now instead of accepting rises in hospitalizations & then lockdown as inevitable. Meanwhile, Professor Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University Medical School, tweeted: “Another lockdown in winter would be unthinkable. No mention of contact tracing + isolation support." But 'We may have to do further lockdowns this winter'. In response to Hopkins's comments on lockdown, he tweeted: “On BBC, Dr Susan Hopkins, strategic response director for Covid-19 at PHE, argued we have to live with coronavirus, like influenza. Other experts have criticised the government’s response to the pandemic, saying the country can “live with the virus” with an effective NHS test and trace system combined with adequate financial support for those needing to isolate.Īnthony Costello, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University College London, has previously argued that contract tracing and isolation support are key to helping the country cope with coronavirus. “All of those things allow us different approaches rather than restrictions on livelihoods that will move us forward into the next phase of learning to live with this as an endemic that happens as part of the respiratory viruses.”
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