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Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect

Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

ratings:
Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jan 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Since the start of the pandemic there have been many warnings that people might die not just from the coronavirus itself, but also if they didn’t seek medical help out of fear that hospitals might be dangerous. Is there any evidence that this has happened? David Spiegelhalter is on the case.

The UK is in lockdown, but tens of thousands of people a day are still testing positive for Coronavirus. Where are they catching it? Grim data on drug deaths in Scotland has been called into question on social media. We ferret out the truth. Plus, what can venomous snakes tell us about the government's plan to increase the number of people self-isolating?
Released:
Jan 27, 2021
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