Italy banned flights from China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan on January 31st. SPI-M-O knew that air travel would spread the disease. as they added the warning to their 10 February report and the subsequent 17th February one. If SAGE knew air travel would spread the disease why wasn't it acted upon from February 10th by the government?
SAGE decided to removed any reference to this section in its previous reports from its March 2nd report,
"Relative risk of epidemics in other countries 17. The relative risk of cases in countries outside China has been shown to be correlated with air passenger levels.
Countries with a higher volume of travel to and from China have been more likely to experience cases Whilst it is to be expected that this will continue to be the case, transport patterns are changing, so the relative risk is expected to as well". Heavy air traffic between the UK and China made it more 'likely to experience cases' and they did nothing. No checks/tests at airports for flights arriving from China. Incredible. Ironically they did check people coming from certain African countries during the Ebola crisis. .Cummings was aregular attendee at SAGE meetings what influence did he have on this removal of passenger numbers from China?
Chris Whitty gave a lecture on 27th February at the Nuffield Trust and castigated the media over stopping air travel, when he said, ' banned flights will only delay the spread by a 15 days, but would be a lot of banning'. 49.40. This was when they were talking about the 'delay stage'. In 15 days tens of Nightingale hospitals could have been built, as they should have done in late February early March.
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Why have the government now done a complete volte face and decide to talk about checks and quarantining people coming into this island? Blaming all and sundry, the NHS, cliciians, the civil service, PHE, Sage, the public but it will not help Johnson and his cohorts and neither will NHS bashing and throwing clinicians under the bus. Johnson and his government owns this debacle and its unnecessary suffering of people and their ring fenced care home death traps.