Reimposing national lockdown measures is ‘increasingly unfeasible’, leading scientists warn Boris Johnson.
A group of leading scientists, medics and academics called on the Prime Minister to adopt more targeted measures to protect the vulnerable.
The unstated objective currently appears to be one of suppression of the virus, until such a time that a vaccine can be deployed. This objective is increasingly unfeasible… and is leading to significant harm across all age groups, which likely offsets all benefits.
Signatories
- Professor Sunetra Gupta (Oxford)
- Professor Carl Heneghan (Oxford)
- Professor Karol Sikora (U. of Buckingham)
- Sam Williams (Economic Insight)
- Professor Louise Allan (Exeter)
- Professor Francois Balloux (UCL)
- Professor Sucharit Bhakdi (JG University of Main)
- Dr Julii Brainard (U. of East Anglia)
- Professor Anthony Brookes (Leicester)
- Professor Nick Colegrave (Edinburgh)
- Dr Ron Daniels (UK Sepsis Trust)
- Professor Robert Dingwall (Nottingham Trent)
- Professor Fionn Dunne (Imperial Coll.)
- Professor Kim Fox (Imperial Coll.)
- Professor Anthony Glass (Sheffield)
- Dr Andy Gaya (Consultant oncologist)
- Dr Peter Grove (Former Dept Health)
- Professor Matt Hickman (Bristol)
- Professor Elizabeth Hughes (Leeds)
- Dr Tom Jefferson (Oxford)
- Professor Syma Khalid (Southampton)
- Professor David Miles (Imperial Coll.)
- Professor Paul Ormerod (UCL)
- Professor Andrew Oswald (Warwick)
- Professor David Paton (Nottingham)
- Professor Hugh Pennington (Aberdeen)
- Professor Barbara Pierscionek (Staffordshire)
- Professor Eve Roman (York)
- Professor Justin Stebbing (Imperial)
- Professor Ellen Townsend (Nottingham)
- Steve Westaby (Retired heart surgeon)
- Professor Simon Wood (Edinburgh)
