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people just take a shotgun approach and put out as much as they can as quickly as possible with the aim of getting a head start on interpretation of future results.
I get this, my issue is that this should all be feeding into other universities, and the DOH, or whoever is co-ordinating this and doing the government modelling. This looks to me very much like briefing to the press to support their own agenda.
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Bit cynical I think. In my experience with bleeding edge modelling research, people just take a shotgun approach and put out as much as they can as quickly as possible with the aim of getting a head start on interpretation of future results. Obviously it's good for your career if you're the one who has the bright idea first but I would hope in public health that's secondary.
e.g. if those antibody tests start coming back 50% positive then now that the Oxford study is out we have an inkling of what it means. End result is we're less likely to end up looking at results we don't understand and (in theory) no harm done if they've got it wrong