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Who Should be Quarantined?

Who Should be Quarantined?

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Who Should be Quarantined?

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Jun 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Some countries are requiring new arrivals to self-isolate, a policy designed to stop infection spreading from areas of high prevalence to low prevalence. Tim Harford and Ruth Alexander find out which countries have the highest rate of Covid-19 infection.
Plus, is it really true that the coronavirus mostly kills people who would die soon anyway?
Released:
Jun 20, 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