The Ebola Epidemic in Europe

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There were over a thousand separate outbreaks in this country from people bringing it back, not from china, it was from spain and italy. And so even our death registrations have undercounted cover deaths. But generally, and yu know, it was all over the playwe we were hita. The country was hit by an eruption of the epidemic. We also know why. It's quite staggering how much we travel.

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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