{"id":104798,"date":"2020-04-05T09:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-tensions-rise-over-scientists-at-heart-of-lockdown-policy"},"modified":"2020-04-05T09:03:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T16:03:29","slug":"coronavirus-tensions-rise-over-scientists-at-heart-of-lockdown-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-tensions-rise-over-scientists-at-heart-of-lockdown-policy","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: tensions rise over scientists at heart of lockdown policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coronavirus-tensions-rise-over-scientists-at-heart-of-lockdown-policy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Society is to create a network of disease modelling groups amid academic concern about the nation\u2019s reliance on a single group of epidemiologists at Imperial College London whose predictions have dominated government policy, including the current lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>It is to bring in modelling experts from fields as diverse as banking, astrophysics and the Met Office to build new mathematical representations of how the coronavirus epidemic is likely to spread across the UK \u2014 and how the lockdown can be ended.<\/p>\n<p>The first public signs of academic tensions over Imperial\u2019s domination of the debate came when Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford University, published a paper suggesting that some of Imperial\u2019s key assumptions could be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Society is to create a network of disease modelling groups amid academic concern about the nation\u2019s reliance on a single group of epidemiologists at Imperial College London whose predictions have dominated government policy, including the current lockdown. It is to bring in modelling experts from fields as diverse as banking, astrophysics and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,1490,2229,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-government","category-mathematics","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}