The Collateral Effects of the Pandemic

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There will be direct deaths caused by coronovarus, but also indirect deaths. Have we got some kind of idea yet what the lifelong health impact that's going to be? People have tried to estimate it. The book grew out of a column ante masters and i had been writing in our weekly stats column. We're trying to help you through the people though the morass of numbers," says David Walliams.

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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