Research and analysis

SPI-B: Risk of public disorder, 25 February 2020

Return by the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) on the risk of public disorder.

• From: Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
• Published: 20 March 2020

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SPI-B: Return on risk of public disorder - 25 February 2020

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Paper by SPI-B on the risk of public disorder in the COVID-19 reasonable worst case scenarios. The paper focuses on scenarios where there are significant workplace absences, such as in the police, and pressures on healthcare facilities.

The paper was discussed at SAGE meeting 10 on 25 February 2020.

This evidence was often compiled very rapidly during a fast-moving response and should be viewed in this context. The paper presented here is the best assessment of the evidence at the time of writing, and the conclusions were formed on this basis. As new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly. Therefore, some of the information in this paper may have been superseded at a later date.

Published 20 March 2020