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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

Thank you for picking out the perfect summary of my position

Kulvinder Kaur MD

@dockaurG

2 years

"We inverted precautionary principle of trying to minimize harm by doing the one thing that we knew would cause harm: lockdowns.. What we do see very sadly.. harms unfolded.. We sit watching devastation that we knew these measures would cause 2yrs ago” —Oxford Prof @SunetraGupta

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Sunetra Gupta

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1. Astonishing that the link to the @gbdeclaration in this piece takes you to a defamatory article in the @guardian rather than the GBD website,

Britain got it wrong on Covid: long lockdown did more harm than good, says scientist

A new book outlines the mistakes and missteps that made UK pandemic worse

www.theguardian.com

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

3 years

That’s absolute nonsense and highly offensive

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

9 months

In the September 2020 meeting with PM Johnson, all the scientists except Edmunds favoured the Swedish approach. Unfortunately we failed to convince Johnson and the UK locked down shortly after.

Professor Sunetra Gupta's UK Covid Inquiry Witness Statement - Collateral Global

The UK Covid Inquiry began hearing witness statements and testimony in June 2023, and will continue doing so until 2026. Collateral Global has been following the proceedings, with regular columns...

collateralglobal.org

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

This could never have been anticipated but we must still all in the biomedical community take responsibility for this, even those who warned against vaccinating individuals who were very unlikely to develop life-threatening symptoms upon infection,

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

@VPrasadMDMPH

2 years

Damage to vax programs will be horrific in decades to come. This administration has made major errors. It pushed too hard on the wrong ages, wrong risk groups; It demanded too little evidence from Pfizer. When necessary childhood vaccine programs collapse, they will be to blame

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3 years

For poor countries, lockdowns cost more lives than they save - Prospect Magazine

For poor countries, lockdowns cost more lives than they save

In tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, solutions for rich countries do not apply universally

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

3 years

Thank you, Allison, for your support and let’s hope 2022 is a better year for all of us

Allison Pearson

@AllisonPearson

3 years

We salute the great @MartinKulldorff @DrJBhattacharya and @SunetraGupta who never foreswore the principles of epidemiology to fall in line with a cowardly and hysterical anti-scientific consensus. History will restore them to their rightful place.

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

7 months

Sham Covid Inquiry is ignoring the victims of lockdown

The Covid Inquiry is insulting the victims of lockdown

It is an establishment sham that has already made up its mind that chaotic Boris is to blame for everything

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

3 years

Models are wonderful conceptual tools, but should never be used to make predictions in the face of high uncertainty We need strategies - like Focused Protection - that are robust to uncertainty, rather than unreliable predictions.

Mike Haynes - a Jobbing Leftie Historian

@JobbingLeftieH

3 years

1/- The problem with epidemiological modelling The discussion of their meaning reflects 1. Unexpected centrality of these models in policy formation. 2. Lack of serious discussion (including by modellers) of their philosophy. [nice short piece here}

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Sunetra Gupta

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3 years

Thanks, Allison. Here's the original paper from July 2020 showing how it impacts cumulative mortality

Allison Pearson

@AllisonPearson

3 years

Exactly what Professor @SunetraGupta said from the very beginning. The common cold had given many of us some protection against Covid.

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Sunetra Gupta

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3 years

2. Misrepresenting the @gbdeclaration as a “let-it-rip” strategy and yet endorsing focused protection has lately become a common ploy among scientists and journalists but it is disappointing to see it trotted out by old friends and colleagues. @guardian

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

3 years

4. Lockdown is not just a dial you can turn up and down at will. Focused protection presents the only viable solution, given the harms of lockdown.

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3 years

EDITORIAL: Putting children and their social interactions first will be key to mental health recovery in a post-pandemic world - Collateral Global

EDITORIAL: Putting children and their social interactions first will be key to mental health...

"The pandemic and associated mandated restrictions have damaged the mental health of children and adolescents enormously."

collateralglobal.org

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

7 months

One would have thought that there would be measures in place to prevent this relentless misrepresentation of our position in a setting which resembles a court of law

Jay Bhattacharya

@DrJBhattacharya

7 months

That a "circuit breaker" lockdown would have saved lives in September/October 2020 is a fantasy. Scotland had their circuit breaker then but had worse covid outcomes than England. Also, Hugo Keith is an ignorant interlocutor. The @gbdeclaration did not call for "let it rip." It

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Sunetra Gupta

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4 years

Finally breaking my twitter silence with this:

EEID research group

@EEID_oxford

4 years

Fundamental principles of epidemic spread highlight the immediate need for large-scale serological surveys to assess the stage of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic (soon to be on medRxiv) @SunetraGupta

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Sunetra Gupta

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3 years

3. Those who are desperate to distance themselves from the GBD fail to acknowledge is that it is impossible to avoid the harms of lockdown and yet mitigate spread. @gbdeclaration @guardian

Britain got it wrong on Covid: long lockdown did more harm than good, says scientist

A new book outlines the mistakes and missteps that made UK pandemic worse

www.theguardian.com

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

So disappointing to have to battle this out in the media rather than through a phonecall, Danny, but here are some explainers on what herd immunity actually means and how it is independent of the rate of loss of immunity

CG Mini-Lectures: Herd Immunity - Collateral Global

Professor Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University explains herd immunity, highlighting critical details about both the concept and its relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic that are often overlooked in...

collateralglobal.org

Daniel Hadas

@DanielHadas2

2 years

In which an immunologist at Imperial College London discovers that a virus that brings only short-term immunity, and for which we have only a non-sterilising vaccine, cannot be eliminated.

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Sunetra Gupta

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2 years

@DrJBhattacharya Reinstated in the hope of enticing you both back…

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Sunetra Gupta

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7 months

Another, more general (and certainly more parsimonious) explanation is that the primary drivers were herd immunity and seasonality rather than either voluntary or mandated behaviour change

CG Mini-Lectures: How seasonality affects the spread of a new virus - Collateral Global

Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the concept of herd immunity threshold and how seasonality affects the way a virus spreads.

collateralglobal.org

Fraser Nelson

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7 months

3. An alternative hypothesis: that the virus is reversed when people take evasive action. This was happening MORE in the UK than Sweden, rejectng the idea that unruly Brits needed the police sent after them.

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Sunetra Gupta

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3 years

I am deeply saddened and disappointed in your characterisation of the GBD although I know you mean well, Francois

Jay Bhattacharya

@DrJBhattacharya

3 years

This is naive, Prof. Balloux. You are protecting your good nature on powerful lockdowners like Fauci, Collins, and Farrar, who by Oct. 2020 had already caused devastating harm. In their hubris, they would never have compromised, as that would have meant admitting error. [1/2]

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Sunetra Gupta

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1 year

Thank you to Freddie and the rest of the UnHerd crew for scrupulously seeking to present every side of this debate right from the start

Freddie Sayers

@freddiesayers

1 year

In 2020, Prof @SunetraGupta was pilloried for her suggestion to @UnHerd that the Covid Infection Fatality Rate could be close to 5 in 10,000. Three years on, new data from Denmark suggests the real figure is... 6.5 in 10,000. Read her response here:

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Sunetra Gupta

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4 years

Thank you, James, for adding substantially to our analyses and for getting the message across far more clearly than us - as Jose has already said.

James Hay

@jameshay218

4 years

A recent analysis from Oxford presented a range of model scenarios consistent with observed COVID death counts. I’m going to reproduce their analysis here and then present some slight modifications to provide a conservative (if technical) perspective. (gonna be 15ish tweets)

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

“We are all responsible for this…as well as not being directly to blame”

Dr Aseem Malhotra

@DrAseemMalhotra

2 years

Before I exposed ambulance delay cover up in my dad’s death I was told by a senior NHS cardiologist not to as it ‘would make me enemies’ I ignored his advice because ‘Those who do nothing are inviting shame. Those who act boldly are recognising right as well as reality’ JFK

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1 year

I agree with everything that you say and my opinion, for what it’s worth, is this was not a lab leak – but how can you say you uphold these principles when you have repeatedly vilified me and others for suggesting that lockdowns were not the most humane solution to this crisis?

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

9 months

@R_Hughes1 Not everything needs to be (or is indeed amenable to being) modelled. We have other respectable tools to aid our thinking. Here's why I believe lockdowns were illogical and violated the Precautionary Principle-

A Betrayal of the Precautionary Principle - Collateral Global

Much of the pandemic decision-making was conducted under a misapprehension (and, occasionally, willful distortion) of the uncertainties involved.

collateralglobal.org

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@SunetraGupta

1 year

Strange to think that this was three years ago

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1 year

Our attempts to challenge their conclusions were invariably rejected without review Waning of infection-blocking immunity with seasonality in transmission is sufficient to explain the dynamics

CG Mini-Lectures: How seasonality affects the spread of a new virus - Collateral Global

Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the concept of herd immunity threshold and how seasonality affects the way a virus spreads.

collateralglobal.org

Fraser Nelson

@FraserNelson

1 year

There was an early Warwick study suggesting EOTO made things worse - but this theory disproven by later data.

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3 years

The Left's Covid failure - UnHerd

The Left's Covid failure

Amplifying the crisis is no way to rebuild trust

unherd.com

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

3 years

Thank you, Molly

LBC

@LBC

3 years

'This is really devastating for children.' @UsforThemUK co-founder Molly Kingsley reacts to news that English secondary school pupils will have to wear face masks in classrooms again. @ianpaynesport | @lensiseethrough

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11 months

@KonstantinKisin Ironically, he is correct on the point that what protects the individual does not stop the spread of the virus in the community This is why focused protection works but it is misguided to assume that these same measures can halt or slow the epidemic

The lockdown scandal nobody wants to talk about

Children were the greatest victims of the erroneous assumptions that lie at the heart of shutdowns

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

This article misrepresents our views

Alasdair Munro

@apsmunro

2 years

Really important article on the polarisation of public scientific discourse in covid, dominated by extreme views Needless to say it’s not representative of most scientists It’s just what generates most clicks It was never zero covid vs do nothing

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10 months

"In the past three years, Green has been the only prominent academic historian in Europe and North America to persistently retrace and denounce the impacts of the global pandemic in Africa & the Global South and debate these impacts in the public sphere"

The Battle for Africa: Covid Consensus as History of the Present | African Arguments

Weighing Covid-19 response policies in the longue duree

africanarguments.org

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Sunetra Gupta

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1 year

1. To my mind, the only coherent explanation for the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in most global settings is that it played out as a classic coronavirus (SIRS with seasonality), with the first peak occurring in many regions before March 2020

Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

1 year

It is indeed telling that they will not engage directly with me and the tone of their messages is quite shocking. I’m happy to discuss the issues directly with them as Twitter is not the best platform for it. I'll follow through with some points they will need to consider.

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Sunetra Gupta

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3 years

That’s very well put, thank you

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3 years

Collateral Global Crowdfunder - JustGiving

Collateral Global Crowdfunder

We are dedicated to researching, understanding and communicating the effectiveness and impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic responses.

www.justgiving.com

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1 year

A lovely reason to break my Twitter silence -

OxPods

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1 year

New episode today with @SunetraGupta from @OxfordBiology talking to @Joe_Woodman1999 about modelling epidemics! Listen below:

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Sunetra Gupta

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4 months

A real pleasure to speak at length with Frank Armstrong

CassandraVoices

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4 months

In our latest podcast Sunetra Gupta recalls her role as the "anti-lockdown Professor" & explains her work on developing a universal influenza vaccine. She's still awaiting an apology from her opponents such as George Monbiot. Listen to the Full Pod on

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It is indeed telling that they will not engage directly with me and the tone of their messages is quite shocking. I’m happy to discuss the issues directly with them as Twitter is not the best platform for it. I'll follow through with some points they will need to consider.

Gladiatrix52

@GladiatrixRedux

1 year

@whippletom @freddiesayers @DAaronovitch @GidMK @sunetragupta as this group of men hasn't had the courtesy to put their questions (and deeply sexist assertions) directly to you, I thought I would offer you the opportunity to respond.

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3 years

This does not do justice to this wonderful book but perhaps it is a sign that the LRB are starting to appreciate how consummately lockdowns disrespect left wing values

Toby Green

@toby00green

3 years

Tks John Lanchester for reviewing The Covid Consensus in @LRB . Only a 4-word review ("A bracing anti-lockdown polemic"). But 4 words is progress. It represents liberal media's acknowledgement of a valid anti-lockdown position which is hard to criticise

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2 years

Just for the record, I have no problem with mandates (I argued with the PHE about implementing a measles vaccine mandate which they rejected) as long as they are an enactment of the social contract. I would happily accept an age-specific mandate if it protected children

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When will Covid really be over? Three things that will mark the end of the pandemic | Erica Charters

History tells us the end of a deadly outbreak isn’t just about medical data – it’s about political and social changes too, says historian Erica Charters

www.theguardian.com

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

3 years

We should have listened to Prof Muliyil and other humble individuals like him who only wanted to reduce human suffering

jasjiv

@jasjiv

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Prof Gupta stating what Muliyil said more than a year earlier; imagine if we’d treated this pandemic differently, w/ protection of the weak AND the wage earner:

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Sunetra Gupta

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2 years

Thank you for your support and for your excellent contributions to the general debate

Vital Resistance

@equal_ibrium

3 years

Just donated to the good people at Collateral Global. If you are also concerned by both the impact and precedent of global lockdowns, please consider giving whatever amount you can. Learn about CG here: And consider donating here:

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Grammatical mistakes are such a good reason to retweet - With due respect, when I took up my pen to sign the GBD what I thinking of were the millions who would die of poverty and neglect rather than those who might suffer from the withdrawal of bodily autonomy

Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

With due respect, when I took up my pen to sign the GBD what I thinking of of the millions who would die of poverty and neglect rather than those whose who might suffer from the withdrawal of bodily autonomy

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@cjsnowdon I repeat: Models are wonderful conceptual tools, but should never be used to make predictions in the face of high uncertainty We need strategies - like Focused Protection - that are robust to uncertainty, rather than unreliable predictions.

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Sunetra Gupta

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1 year

And even the Guardian were on board then -

Jay Bhattacharya

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1 year

@T_Brautigan We wrote the @gbdeclaration in october 2020 because we knew there would be a winter wave, and we pointed out lockdown harms in some detail in the interviews and debates that followed. We called for focused protection of vulnerable people, not 'let it rip'. If this was your

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2 years

Particularly as a close friend of 35 years…

Jay Bhattacharya

@DrJBhattacharya

2 years

Finally, I wonder what Woolhouse thinks of the behavior of top scientific bureaucrats, politicians, and the media smearing and deplatforming me, @MartinKulldorff , @SunetraGupta and so many others. Should we not have had this discussion without prejudice in 2020? 5/5

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With due respect, when I took up my pen to sign the GBD what I thinking of of the millions who would die of poverty and neglect rather than those whose who might suffer from the withdrawal of bodily autonomy

Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

Just for the record, I have no problem with mandates (I argued with the PHE about implementing a measles vaccine mandate which they rejected) as long as they are an enactment of the social contract. I would happily accept an age-specific mandate if it protected children

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1 year

6. The notion that lockdowns worked to stop spread of infection does not resist scrutiny at present although they may have offered focused protection.

Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

1 year

5. The apparent “mildness’ of Omicron is most likely to due to most people having acquired immunity against severe disease by then due to exposure or vaccination and not an intrinsic property of the virus population itself.

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@covidinquiryuk @ITV A valuable complement to some actual documentaries such as this one -

The Children of Nowhere - Collateral Global

This film, by Kunal Purohit and Abeer Khan (biographies below) for Collateral Global, cuts to the heart of CG’s research agenda: understanding the enormity of the harms which lockdowns brought about...

collateralglobal.org

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Sunetra Gupta

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3 years

John Bird is one of my heroes - first came to know of him on Radio 3 speaking with eloquence and passion about how classical music transformed his life - underscoring how much we owe it to underprivileged children to give them an education in the Arts

lucy johnston

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3 years

🚨 Lockdown will trigger homelessness tsunami 225,000 face eviction “We’re in the midst of a perfect storm - rising energy costs, universal credit cut, end of furlough, lockdown job losses... I am very very worried.” Watch the podcast with John Bird:

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2 years

Thank you, Molly - and keep up the good work!

Molly Kingsley

@lensiseethrough

2 years

@karamballes We were honoured that @SunetraGupta and @DrJBhattacharya contributed, along with many others, to The Children’s Inquiry. They are two of the most inspiring souls I’ve ever met. The abuse they faced, and its awful consequences, will be recalled as one of history’s great tragedies.

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Is it now time to formalise the processes for scientific advice in emergencies? - Collateral Global

In mid 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee conducted an enquiry into the Science of COVID-19.

collateralglobal.org

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@dobssi @KevinBardosh @RoxanneHoge @DrJBhattacharya @MartinKulldorff It’s a common misconception that rapid loss of infection blocking immunity is at odds with the establishment and maintenance of herd immunity

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5. The apparent “mildness’ of Omicron is most likely to due to most people having acquired immunity against severe disease by then due to exposure or vaccination and not an intrinsic property of the virus population itself.

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@SunetraGupta

1 year

3. We were not in a position to evaluate the IFR in March 2020, although the skew in age was obvious - seroprevalence studies (which I put my money on – and, yes, I was wrong!) did not provide a clear indication of the level of exposure in a community

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These are the points they will need to consider: 2. When I said that the epidemic was on its way out, I did not mean there wouldn’t be a second wave – why would I have risked so much to suggest a way of dealing with a resurgence if I thought it had just gone away?

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@SunetraGupta

1 year

1. To my mind, the only coherent explanation for the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in most global settings is that it played out as a classic coronavirus (SIRS with seasonality), with the first peak occurring in many regions before March 2020

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CG BLOG - Ellen Townsend: Why I got involved in Collateral Global - Collateral Global

"Two words really: my children."

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4. Clearly more elderly and otherwise vulnerable people died than I expected in the UK and we should be asking why this happened but that does not mean the IFR is 0.9

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@SunetraGupta

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3. We were not in a position to evaluate the IFR in March 2020, although the skew in age was obvious - seroprevalence studies (which I put my money on – and, yes, I was wrong!) did not provide a clear indication of the level of exposure in a community

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A crisis to worsen all crises: living with lockdowns in the Global South. - Collateral Global

In this episode Reva Yunus and Aleida Borges talk about the gendered aspects of a very ‘punitive’ pandemic response, especially in the Global South. Dr Aleida Mendes Borges also talks about the book,...

collateralglobal.org

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The ethics of the Omicron travel ban | The Spectator

The ethics of the Omicron travel ban

The Omicron variant had not even been named when the government’s reflexes sprung into almost involuntary reaction last month, and it introduced yet more Covid restrictions. The ‘red list’ was...

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@dobssi @KevinBardosh @RoxanneHoge @DrJBhattacharya @MartinKulldorff Please see

CG Mini-Lectures: How seasonality affects the spread of a new virus - Collateral Global

Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the concept of herd immunity threshold and how seasonality affects the way a virus spreads.

collateralglobal.org

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Sunetra Gupta

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@AllisonPearson @MartinKulldorff As did many others. Thank you for acknowledging this…

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

We are looking for an immunologist (highly motivated and independent, of course) to join our universal flu vaccine programme:

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@SunetraGupta

2 years

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Sunetra Gupta

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@LegoLas44941816 If it makes any difference at all, I cannot think of anyone whose tweets I look forward to reading more than yours. I’ve also found quite useful, in my darker moments, to remember that Rilke accused us of being wasters of sorrows.

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@TonyHinton2016 As you must know I have great respect for your opinions, but I would maintain that it is human dignity we hold onto - as Oedipus and the great tragedies affirm - rather than bodily autonomy

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@TAH_Sci None of us has the full skill set to determine what strategy was optimal but it should have been clear from the outset that lockdowns would cause more harm than good.

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A Covid retrospective | The Spectator Australia

Two years ago, I and a small group of multi-disciplinary New Zealand-based academics published our Covid Plan B. The plan was borne out of our unease at the prevailing Covid narrative and the New…

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

Just to be clear, I am addressing Danny Altmann here @Daltmann10

Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

So disappointing to have to battle this out in the media rather than through a phonecall, Danny, but here are some explainers on what herd immunity actually means and how it is independent of the rate of loss of immunity

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With due respect, when I took up my pen to sign the GBD, I thinking of of the millions who would die of poverty and neglect rather than those who might suffer from the withdrawal of bodily autonomy

Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

With due respect, when I took up my pen to sign the GBD what I thinking of of the millions who would die of poverty and neglect rather than those whose who might suffer from the withdrawal of bodily autonomy

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Excellent piece by Kunal Purohit

India's lost lockdown generation

The world's largest democracy has sacrificed its future

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@SunetraGupta

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It's time to fix the NHS's looming winter crisis | The Spectator

It's time to fix the NHS's looming winter crisis

My patient has sepsis. The window for treatment is short; in less than an hour, he could die. In urgent care, the direct line to ambulance control bypasses 999: it lets the call handler know a doctor...

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@SunetraGupta

4 months

This might help -

CG Mini-Lectures: How seasonality affects the spread of a new virus - Collateral Global

Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the concept of herd immunity threshold and how seasonality affects the way a virus spreads.

collateralglobal.org

Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

4 months

@dobssi @KevinBardosh @RoxanneHoge @DrJBhattacharya @MartinKulldorff It’s a common misconception that rapid loss of infection blocking immunity is at odds with the establishment and maintenance of herd immunity

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Dispelling science’s gender myths

Dispelling science’s gender myths - UN Today

Award-winning Sunetra Gupta, novelist and Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, reveals her pathway to success

untoday.org

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@SunetraGupta

2 years

Really looking forward to this -

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@SunetraGupta

2 years

@neorevolt Exactly

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@SunetraGupta

3 years

But, unlike me, for whom the Koch bothers have installed an energy inefficient swimming pool in my back gardens, Owen can sleep at night

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@SunetraGupta

5 years

Thanks, Petra!

Vaccine Centre

@LSHTM_Vaccines

5 years

In the first podcast in our series launched yesterday our own @petrakle speaks to @SunetraGupta in ‘Progress towards a universal flu vaccine: understanding the many 'hats' of the influenza virus’ #vaccineswork

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@SunetraGupta

4 months

There are also extremely sound epidemiological reasons why NPIs would have caused the transient disappearance of an endemic pathogen like influenza without having any material effect on the epidemic behaviour of SARS-CoV-2

Jay Bhattacharya

@DrJBhattacharya

4 months

@rdmorris @MIT @AlexBerenson @boriquagato Bob, my tweet made no claim about the inefficacy of lockdowns against the flu, covid or anything else. I didn't even say anything about the devastating harms of lockdowns on kids, in the poor and the working class. If you want to help study those harms, @SunetraGupta ,

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@SunetraGupta

2 years

So glad to see this go into 2nd ed - with the perfect subtitle

Toby Green

@toby00green

2 years

@battleforeurope and I excited to announce the coauthored 2nd edition of The Covid Consensus with new subtitle: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor -- a Critique from the Left: (p40) Tks as always @MikeDwyerMike

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Sunetra Gupta

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@CognitiveEmpat1 Very good point. The first consideration is if it is logical. The second - which is more delicate - is whether it is ethical. This is the framework within which to place our desire for individual liberty.

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3. We were not in a position to evaluate the IFR in March 2020, although the skew in age was obvious - seroprevalence studies (which I put my money on – and, yes, I was wrong!) did not provide a clear indication of the level of exposure in a community

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

2 years

Please watch

Toby Green

@toby00green

2 years

This is an important film by @kunalpurohit and Abeer Khan. These stories humanise this appalling tragedy.

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Sunetra Gupta

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3 years

@cjsnowdon So can I expect an apology accompanied by a nice round of ?

The best cheese in the world has been named… and it’s not French

In a vast room filled with runny, stinky, funky dairy products, an obscure goats cheese was voted the winner – how did it nab the top spot?

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

1 year

Thank you for reminding me how well this explainer goes with Here is the full link - And indeed the variants have not evolved to be more virulent - which is obviously the question that is actually being asked here.

CG Mini-Lectures: Variants - Collateral Global

Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the significance of COVID-19 variants

collateralglobal.org

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@MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta

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1 year

@KevinBardosh Retweeted!

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2 months

A real pleasure to speak with Rithika Ravishankar on pandemic preparedness

OxSci x OxPods: Post-COVID-19 Era

Listen to this episode from OxPods on Spotify. Pandemics of the past highlight the persistent threat of disease throughout human history. It might seem that our repeated encounters with infectious...

open.spotify.com

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

1 year

For those who were burned - The Covid Stories WebApp of Collateral Global - Collateral Global

Traumatic times in human experience are often best understood, across cultures, through the sharing of stories. I have a few personal ones to tell from the Covid restrictions. First, I was furious...

collateralglobal.org

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4 years

@professor_dave This is consistent (as you must know) with the behaviour of any disease with a short period of infection

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@SunetraGupta

7 years

What a wonderful surprise - thank you so much @Womans_Place_UK

Woman’s Place UK

@Womans_Place_UK

7 years

Today’s inspiration @SunetraGupta - scientist, novelist, writer/broadcaster, Oxford Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology #BlackHistoryMonth

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5 years

It’s been a wonderful journey together, Caroline ❤️

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@SunetraGupta

2 years

@LegoLas44941816 I think my time on Twitter is over but I will miss you. Feel free to stay in touch and we would love you to visit.

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3 years

'The type of person who makes the world work': remembering Anthony Smith | The Spectator

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1 year

Please also watch their film:

Collateral Global Charity

@collateralglbl

1 year

"This film, by Kunal Purohit and Abeer Khan for Collateral Global, cuts to the heart of CG’s research agenda: understanding the enormity of the harms which lockdowns brought about among vulnerable populations in the Global South." The Children of Nowhere:

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3 years

How absolutely wonderful

Amit Chaudhuri

@AmitChaudhuri

3 years

I did a home recording for the first time today - ‘purano sei diner katha’, Tagore’s lovely reimagining of ‘Auld Lang Syne’. I recorded it on my iPhone and it has no enhancements or edits. It’s an informal offering, and I apologise for glitches or lapses:

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Sunetra Gupta

@SunetraGupta

5 years

How we will miss you!

Princeton University

@Princeton

5 years

We are saddened to hear of the sudden passing of professor emeritus Henry Horn. Dan Rubenstein, director of the program in environmental studies, says of Horn, "He was the rock of the department and his absence is going to be very hard to accept."

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Also read: Intrinsic and Effective Severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Cases Infected With the Ancestral Strain and Omicron BA.2 Variant in Hong Kong

Intrinsic and Effective Severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Cases Infected With the Ancestral...

Evaluating changes in COVID-19 severity over time is crucial when novel variants emerge. Intrinsic fatality risk was similar between Omicron and ancestral

academic.oup.com

EMBO Reports

@emboreports

1 year

Sunetra Gupta @SunetraGupta @OxfordBiology @UniofOxford on the #evolution of #virulence , on #pathogen spread and herd #immunity . #virus " … #Omicron had been hiding in the wings all along, waiting to make an entrance when the conditions were right."

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2 years

@LegoLas44941816 Keep going - you are extraordinary

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6 years

The credit here should go to Craig Thompson @craigpthomp for going beyond simply testing the predictions of our model to developing a pipeline for identifying antigenic targets for a universal influenza vaccine

Oxford University Innovation

@OxUInnovation

6 years

Why don't we yet have a universal flu vaccine and how can we fix that? Professor @SunetraGupta from @UniofOxford 's @OxZooDept writes in Nature about her latest research into influenza, which OUI is helping get into the wider world.

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@bealelab We did some of the early studies as well - Why is it not possible to have a civilised discussion about this?

SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence, titres and neutralising activity in an antenatal cohort, United...

SARS-CoV-2 IgG screening of 1,000 antenatal serum samples in the Oxford area, United Kingdom, between 14 April and 15 June 2020, yielded a 5.3% seroprevalence, mirroring contemporaneous regional...

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1 year

@whippletom @freddiesayers There is absolutely no reason to invoke lockdowns (voluntary or otherwise) to explain the patterns observed - a simple SIRS model with seasonality will faithfully reproduce them (Epi 101)

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