‘To save a life’ we must end lockdown
I was going to add, in regards to my ‘Is Anything Worth Doing to Save a Life‘ post, that there […]
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Dene Bebbington: Pandemic reading recommendations
This is a guest post by Dene Bebbington. I would add Reckoning With Risk by Gerd Gigerenzer (who’s been sensible […]
Read moreIs anything worth doing to save a life?
Let me ask you a question. Would you give up your job, your savings, your kids’ economic future, your pension, […]
Read moreSome NHS graphs from reader Christopher Bowyer
Christopher Bowyer has sent me some graphs of the NHS Covid-19 death data. Here’s a graph of NHS England Covid-19 […]
Read moreSome useful interactive maps
One of my blog readers (who goes by the handle ‘It doesn’t add up…’) has done some useful webpages, including […]
Read moreJohn Church: What we think we know, and what it might mean for predictions and possible mitigation strategies
This is a guest post by John Church. John is an oil and gas professional and has spent some 30 […]
Read moreSex differences and respiratory graphs for week 15
Blog reader (and retired Professor) Robert Watson has done some more graphs for us. First of all we have a […]
Read moreWeek 15 ONS line graphs
A line graph of the latest ONS all-death figures for England and Wales up to the end of week 15 […]
Read moreDo the ONS numbers show that the lockdown is killing people?
Note: If you’re a new reader to my blog and you’re finding these long stats-based posts not your style, take […]
Read moreMore week 14 Covid-19 graphs
A reader of this blog, Christopher Bowyer, sent me some more interesting graphs. First of all we have the age […]
Read moreWinter 2019-20 graph, and a Covid-19 place of death graph
Laurence Hodge has done us this graph of deaths this winter up to week 14 (click to enlarge): You can […]
Read moreGraph: number of deaths involving Covid-19, registered, occurring and reported
David Clark has sent me a new graph, again based on the ONS stats (click to enlarge): This one is […]
Read moreAvoiding deaths cannot be the be-all and end-all of public policy
Here’s a thought experiment. Consider two possible worlds, A and B. World A has more freedom, higher levels of happiness, […]
Read moreIs the lockdown killing people?
As I said in an earlier post, there were 6082 deaths more than the five-year average for week 14, yet […]
Read moreRespiratory deaths graphs
Here’s a graph of weekly respiratory deaths for England and Wales up to the end of week 14 (3 April), […]
Read moreSome digging into the week 14 death numbers
If you download the latest ONS death stats spreadsheet, and look at the page entitled ‘Covid-19 – E&W comparisons’, you […]
Read moreMore week 14 graphs
Here are some more graphs for week 14 of 2020, which have been done by an academic reader of my […]
Read moreWeek 14 line graphs
Here are some more graphs for week 14 of 2020, which have been done by a reader of this blog, […]
Read more6082 extra week 14 deaths, yet only 3475 Covid-19 deaths
We had 6082 more deaths in week 14 than the five-year average, yet only 3475 deaths that week were Covid-19 […]
Read moreONS week 14 figures out
The ONS figures for week 14 (England and Wales) are now out. Finally we can see a rise in deaths, […]
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