How the UK's Science Advisory Group for Emergencies Gets it Wrong
Introduction The UK government uses an organisation called the Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) to provide it with science advice. The head of Sage is the Chief Scientific Officer (Sir Patrick Vallance at the time of writing). There is more detail on the official website: About the UK's SAGE As you'd expect SAGE was front and centre immediately prior to and during the Covid pandemic in 2020, sometimes not for the right reasons. I've written about a SAGE paper (Report-9) authored by Professor Neil Ferguson at Imperial College back in March 2020, which looked at possible interventions to reduce the impact of Covid on the UK & US, see: Report-9 Review, Conclusions & Recommendations on SAGE . My main observation on Report-9 is that it failed to make the blatantly obvious conclusions and also failed to identify the most obvious intervention of preventing the most vulnerable people from getting infected in the first place. These two failures led into the