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WS More or Less: Coronavirus

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


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WS More or Less: Coronavirus

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Feb 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The WHO have declared a ‘Global Health Emergency’ as health officials are urgently trying to contain the spread of a new coronavirus in China and beyond; but not all the information you read is correct. We fact-check a particularly hyperbolic claim about its spread that’s been doing the rounds on social media.
Released:
Feb 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4