When they were doing office for national statistics, were doing their surveys in the summer when there's two thousand and 20 es, very little varus around. And it's quite plausible that all those were false positives,. but it did put a sort of upper bound on what the false positive rate was for the picas. They're all making they're all still collecting. Iin odd ways, an you can understand why some one in belgium would say that cause belgium had was always lowertop of the pile, weren't they? Wee they always top of the pile because they counted probable cases as coved - even without confirmation.
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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