Covid-19 Recovery Committee Informal fact-finding event Thursday, 19 May 2022 Note of discussion Invited guests • Professor Niamh Nic Daéid FRSE • Professor Maggie Gill OBE FRSE • Professor Mark Woolhouse FRSE FMedSci OBE Committee members • Siobhian Brown MSP, Convener • Jim Fairlie MSP • Murdo Fraser MSP (apologies) • John Mason MSP • Alex Rowley MSP • Brian Whittle MSP Introduction to the session The Committee discussed the work of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Post-Covid Futures Commission’s Data, Evidence and Science Working Group on data gathering.