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Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Sep 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Amid reports of problems with coronavirus testing across the UK, we interrogate the numbers on laboratory capacity. Does the government’s Operation Moonshot plan for mass testing make statistical sense? Has the UK been taking more refugees from outside the European Union than any EU country? We explore the connection between socio-economic status and Covid deaths. And we do the maths on a mascara brand’s bold claim about emboldening your eyelashes.
Released:
Sep 16, 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