{"id":3577,"date":"2021-03-14T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/?page_id=3577"},"modified":"2021-03-14T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:24:45","slug":"email-allyson-pollock-to-sage-members-05-oct-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/?page_id=3577","title":{"rendered":"Email, Allyson Pollock to SAGE members, 05 Oct 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From:<\/strong>\u00a0Allyson Pollock<br><strong>Sent:<\/strong>\u00a005 October 2020 19:04<br><strong>To:<\/strong>\u00a0Dave King, Karl Friston, Kamlesh Khunti, Anthony Costello, Susan Michie, Deenan Pillay, Christina Pagel, Tolullah Oni, Zubaida Haque, Stephen Reicher, Gabriel Scally, Martin McKee<br><strong>Cc:<\/strong>\u00a0Carole Cadwalladr, Zack King<br><strong>Subject:<\/strong>\u00a0Re: IndieSAGE membership<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Dave,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sorry it has come to this. I have learned a lot from the group. I look forward to continuing engagement, for example on the planned inequalities report which Clare and I will&nbsp; send to you all for approval and presentation next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you know I have voiced concerns about how the wish to respond rapidly can lead to not always following the science. In the spirit of being constructive, I would like to suggest that when considering&nbsp;policy recommendations, the group gives more&nbsp;consideration&nbsp;to the need to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i) provide a clear evidential basis and grading for any recommendations, identifying the uncertainties in the science and the areas that need further enquiry,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ii) advocate for robust studies of harms and costs and benefits of complex public health interventions, such as masks and mass testing, before making any such policy recommendations for the population,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>iii) acknowledge and consider other views and scientific opinions on interpretation of cases, hospital admissions and deaths,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>iv) pay more attention to the heterogeneity of immunity and endemicity of the virus before advocating elimination and suppression (i.e., Zero COVID and the particularly restrictive measures which follow from this),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vi) adopt a whole system approach to finding symptomatic patients and focusing efforts on clinical integration of testing as well as reinstatement of health and social care services, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>v) see opposing scientific views and opinions as a gift and an opportunity to be sceptical and learn, rather than as a &#8216;rival camp&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best wishes, Allyson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From:\u00a0Allyson PollockSent:\u00a005 October 2020 19:04To:\u00a0Dave King, Karl Friston, Kamlesh Khunti, Anthony Costello, Susan Michie, Deenan Pillay, Christina Pagel, Tolullah Oni, Zubaida Haque, Stephen Reicher, Gabriel Scally, Martin McKeeCc:\u00a0Carole Cadwalladr, Zack KingSubject:\u00a0Re: IndieSAGE membership Dear Dave, I am sorry it has come to this. I have learned a lot from the group. I look forward to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allysonpollock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}