The Models in the Pandemic

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The word model has probably featured up there more than almost any other when considering what we should do and what might happen in the pandemic. I think that, i think some people have suggested, they could possibly have played far too big a role. The stuff that comes out of spim is is great. It shows therea sort of range of possibilities and some sort of central values. But they've got things wrong. In fact, you know, we don't know what's going to happen. We do know it's going to get really bad and er, and something be done.

With data on the Covid-19 pandemic changing shape with every new outbreak and new mutation, it's a complex task to make sense of where the story of the virus will head next. David Spiegelhalter is chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University and an expert on crunching figures in order to understand successes and failures. His new book Covid by Numbers, co-written with Anthony Masters, seeks to shine a spotlight on the UK's handling of the pandemic. In this episode he speaks with the virologist and host of The Naked Scientist podcast Dr Chris Smith.

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