The advice on the reopening of schools can be found from Meeting 23
onwards. Contents Role Participants Expert groups Scientific
evidence supporting the government response to COVID-19 Role
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The advice on the reopening of schools can be found from Meeting 23
onwards.
Role
SAGE is
responsible for ensuring that timely and coordinated
scientific advice is made available to decision makers to
support UK cross-government decisions in the Cabinet Office
Briefing Room (COBR). The advice
provided by SAGE does
not represent official government policy.
Find out more
about SAGE (PDF, 101KB, 4
pages).
Participants
The group is chaired by the Government Chief Scientific
Adviser, Sir and co-chaired
by the Chief Medical Officer, , and includes
experts from within government and leading specialists from
the fields of healthcare and academia.
View the full list of
participants of SAGE and
related sub-groups.
Expert groups
SAGE relies
on external science advice and on advice from expert groups.
During COVID-19 this includes the:
These groups consider the scientific evidence and feed in
their consensus conclusions to SAGE.
Scientific evidence supporting the government response to
COVID-19
The national and global response to the spread of COVID-19
continues to develop quickly and our knowledge of the virus
is growing. These statements and accompanying evidence
demonstrate how our understanding of COVID-19 has evolved as
new data has emerged.
The evidence was often complied very rapidly during a
fast-moving response and should be viewed in this context.
The papers presented here are the best assessment of the
evidence at the time of writing, and their conclusions were
formed on this basis. As new evidence or data
emerges, SAGE updates
its advice accordingly. Therefore, some of the information in
these papers may have been superseded at a later date.
Dynamic reports from the COVID-19 Clinical
Information Network (CO-CIN)have
been provided to SAGE to
highlight ongoing information and evidence about COVID-19 for
a large sample of hospitalised UK patients. As the reports
are dynamic, the data included and analyses change over time
and in each report. Particularly for early reports, there may
be a risk of misinterpretation – it is important that any
potential signals have been confirmed as robust and not taken
out of context. A peer reviewed publication is forthcoming
which reports summary results between 6 February and 19 April
2020. A preprint is currently available at: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.23.20076042v1.full.pdf
This page will be updated on a regular basis with the
latest available evidence provided to SAGE.
Introduction to the evidence
R number
SAGE meeting
papers
View the full list of
meeting papers (CSV, 10.3KB).
Meeting 4, 4 February 2020
Meeting 6, 11 February 2020
Meeting 8, 18 February 2020
Meeting 9, 20 February 2020
Meeting 10, 25 February 2020
Meeting 11, 27 February 2020
Meeting 12, 3 March 2020
Meeting 13, 5 March 2020
Meeting 14, 10 March 2020
Meeting 15, 13 March 2020
Meeting 16, 16 March 2020
Meeting 17, 18 March 2020
Meeting 18, 23 March 2020
Meeting 19, 26 March 2020
Meeting 21, 31 March 2020
Meeting 22, 2 April 2020
Material was redacted from the first document in accordance
with the standard principles governing Freedom of Information
when it was first published. However Sir and No10 agree
that such SAGEdocuments
relating to COVID-19 should be published in full, in the
interests of maximum transparency, with exceptions only for
matters relating to national security.
Meeting 23, 7 April 2020
Meeting 24, 9 April 2020
Meeting 25, 14 April 2020
Meeting 26, 16 April 2020
Meeting 27, 21 April 2020
Meeting 28, 23 April 2020
Meeting 29, 28 April 2020
Meeting 30, 30 April 2020
Meeting 31, 1 May
Meeting 33, 5 May 2020
Meeting 34, 7 May 2020
Meeting 35, 12 May 2020
Meeting 36, 14 May 2020
SPI-B background papers
These papers were produced by SPI-B participants
to aid early discussions and understanding of the group.
Emerging evidence about COVID-19
Reports from Imperial College London
The models
Specific pieces of modelling on interventions provided
to SAGE
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