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clavinova What do you think of the 21st Feb Nervtag minutes?
And the immediate Government reaction to them....
I can see that the Chair of NERVTAG, Peter Horby, who also chaired that meeting, Tweeted/Retweeted this on the 3rd March;
Peter Horby Mar 3
"Worth a read - sensible, clear and proportionate."
Peter Horby Retweeted Professor Chris Whitty
"Professor Chris Whitty CMO_England
Today the government published the action plan for COVID-19. It outlines what we are doing now, and what we intend to do, to contain, delay, research and mitigate. We need to ensure our actions (including tradeoffs) and our timing are grounded on science."
"Peter Horby is Director of the Epidemic diseases Research Group at the University of Oxford. He is a public health physician and clinical academic who trained in adult medicine, infectious diseases and public health in the UK and Australia. He was previously Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam and has held positions with the UK Health Protection Agency and the World Health Organisation. He has worked extensively in resource constrained settings and has led research on a wide range of emerging and epidemic infections, including variant CJD, SARS, H5N1, H7N9, dengue, rabies, cholera, measles, rubella, Streptococcus suis, Hand Foot and Mouth Disease, and Ebola." Prof Horby advises the WHO on emerging infections.