Professor John Edmunds was a key figure on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) that advised the government during the coronavirus pandemic.
At the beginning of April 2020, a group of senior epidemiologists charged with advising the Government on Covid met for their weekly meeting. The country was barely two weeks into lockdown and in the thick of that first devastating wave. That month, the virus would reach its peak for 2020 – out of 13,000 excess deaths in mid-April, around 9,500 were attributed to Covid.
No 10 culture led to better decisions, Boris Johnson tells Covid inquiry; People removed from COVID inquiry as Boris Johnson apologises for ‘pain and suffering’
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