Evidence informing the UK's COVID-19 public health response must be transparent
Nisreen A Alwan
Raj Bhopal
Rochelle A Burgess
Tim Colburn
Luis E Cuevas
George Davey Smith
et al.
Published:March 17, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30667-X
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.