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Questioning claims about Covid and children

Questioning claims about Covid and children

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Questioning claims about Covid and children

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

ratings:
Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Feb 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?

We scrutinise some scary stats that have been circulating on social and examine what excess deaths figures tell us about the risks of Covid compared to other illnesses.

Plus, with the gift of hindsight, we examine the joys and sorrows of modelling the spread of the virus. Do MPs understand how false positive rates work? And we unwrap the mystery of the nanomoles.
Released:
Feb 16, 2022
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