Quote of the Day
From the comments: As a zoology undergrad & postgrad in Oxford from 92-99 I can confirm that Anderson was a […]
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Is the lockdown killing people?
I’ve published an article at The Critic, that most excellent new UK magazine. It’s on the issue of whether the […]
Read moreJohn Church: Update on Diamond Princess / Lombardy Model for Predicting Mortality and Infection Spread
This is a guest post by John Church. John is an oil and gas professional and has spent some 30 […]
Read moreWeek 16 ONS numbers
The latest ONS figures are out for England and Wales for week 16 (up to April 17). Almost 11 854 […]
Read moreUpdated NHS graphs from Christopher Bowyer
Christopher Bowyer has sent me some more graphs based on the latest NHS England data.
Read moreDeaths to date for the year, week 15
For England and Wales: 2020 deaths to week 15: 184 960 Five-year average to week 15: 174 718 The gap […]
Read more‘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 […]
Read moreDene 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 moreAnon IT Professional: Can we trust Neil Ferguson’s flu pandemic model?
This is a guest post by an anonymous IT professional. We’re living in strange – “unprecedented” to use the cliché […]
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, […]
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