Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases

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Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Oct 31, 2020

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A headline in a British tabloid newspaper claimed that ‘Staggering 86% who tested Covid positive in lockdown had NONE of the official symptoms’ but what does this mean and is it true?

Released:

Oct 31, 2020

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

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