Intelligence Squared

Covid by Numbers with David Spiegelhalter

Oct 15, 2021

47:41

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The Models in the Pandemic

02:01

What Is the False Positive Rate?

04:19

Is There a Zero Covet Strategy?

02:16

Introduction

2min

Science Isn't Policy

4min

The Models in the Pandemic

2min

What's the Value of R?

3min

How Many People Are Infected?

1min

Can You Tell Us Something About Herd Immunity?

2min

Are We Moving Away From Herd Immunity?

2min

Is There a Zero Covet Strategy?

2min

What Is the False Positive Rate?

4min

10.

Coronovirus

2min

11.

Covet Deaths

2min

12.

The Ebola Epidemic in Europe

2min

13.

Mortality Displacement

2min

14.

The Average Age of Death From Covet Is the Average Age of Death From Other Things

3min

15.

The Collateral Effects of the Pandemic

4min

16.

What's the End Game?

5min

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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