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Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?

Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

ratings:
Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jul 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The UK has suffered one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus anywhere in the world. We’ve been tracking and analysing the numbers for the last 14 weeks, and in the last programme of this More or Less series, we look back through the events of March 2020 to ask why things went so wrong - was it bad decision-making, bad advice, or bad luck?
Released:
Jul 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