Science and policy in extremis: what can we learn from the UK’s initial response to COVID-19?
Birch, Jonathan
(2020)
Science and policy in extremis: what can we learn from the UK’s initial response to COVID-19?
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SAGE uses a set of assumptions called the ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ in its pandemic planning. Jonathan Birch (LSE) looks at the group’s minutes and documents from early 2020 and argues that over-reliance on these assumptions led to costly delays.
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| Copyright holders | © 2020 The Author |
| Keywords | coronavirus, Covid-19 |
| Departments | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| Date Deposited | 19 Jan 2021 14:09 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/108281 |
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