Evidence informing the UK’s COVID-19 public health response must be transparent

Nisreen A. Alwan; Raj Bhopal; Rochelle A. Burgess; Tim Colburn; Luis Cuevas; George Davey Smith; Matthias Egger; Sandra Eldridge; Valentina Gallo; Mark S. Gilthorpe; Trish Greenhalgh; Christopher Griffiths; Paul R. Hunter; Shabbar Jaffar; Ruth Jepson; Nicola Low; Adrian Martineau; David McCoy; Miriam Orcutt; Bharat Pankhania; Hynek Pikhart; Allyson Pollock; Gabriel Scally; James Smith; Devi Sridhar; Stephanie Taylor; Peter W.G. Tennant; Yrene Themistocleous; Anne Wilson

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30667-x

Evidence informing the UK’s COVID-19 public health response must be transparent

Nisreen A. Alwan
, Raj Bhopal
, Rochelle A. Burgess
, Tim Colburn
, Luis Cuevas
, George Davey Smith
, Matthias Egger
, Sandra Eldridge
, Valentina Gallo
, Mark S. Gilthorpe
, Trish Greenhalgh
, Christopher Griffiths
, Paul R. Hunter
, Shabbar Jaffar
, Ruth Jepson
, Nicola Low
, Adrian Martineau
, David McCoy
, Miriam Orcutt
, Bharat Pankhania

Hynek Pikhart, Allyson Pollock, Gabriel Scally, James Smith, Devi Sridhar, Stephanie Taylor, Peter W.G. Tennant, Yrene Themistocleous, Anne Wilson

University of Southampton
University of Edinburgh
University College London
University of Bristol
Institute of Population Health Sciences
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
University of Leeds
University of Oxford
University of East Anglia
University of Bern
Queen Mary University of London
University of Exeter
Newcastle University

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Abstract

The UK Government asserts that its response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is based on evidence and expert modelling. However, different scientists can reach different conclusions based on the same evidence, and small differences in assumptions can lead to large differences in model predictions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1036-1037
Number of pages	2
Journal	The Lancet
Volume	395
Issue number	10229
Early online date	17 Mar 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30667-x
Publication status	Published - 28 Mar 2020

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Alwan, N. A., Bhopal, R., Burgess, R. A., Colburn, T., Cuevas, L., Smith, G. D., Egger, M., Eldridge, S., Gallo, V., Gilthorpe, M. S., Greenhalgh, T., Griffiths, C., Hunter, P. R., Jaffar, S., Jepson, R., Low, N., Martineau, A., McCoy, D., Orcutt, M., ... Wilson, A. (2020). Evidence informing the UK’s COVID-19 public health response must be transparent. The Lancet, 395(10229), 1036-1037. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30667-x

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Evidence informing the UK’s COVID-19 public health response must be transparent

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