Covid-19 Data
Total 6 Posts
Government needs a definitive Covid-19 management strategy.
4 min read
As the country enters its third lockdown, let’s draw some points from yesterday’s UK Covid-19 Data, Covid-transmission from abroad, the overstretched NHS, questions about the use, and meaning of the term ‘herd immunity’, and the strategy the government needs to adopt now.
UK Covid Data Headlines: 28 December 2020.
2 min read
Today’s data indicate 41,385 new coronavirus cases (the HIGHEST UK number reported at any time during the pandemic!) and a further 357 deaths.
The terrifying nuance and complexity behind COVID-19 numbers.
4 min read
Hospitalizations are not a static thing. This is what happens when public healthcare cannot cope with every patient and only the very sickest get a bed.
England’s contact-tracing system needs better data handling to beat COVID-19.
6 min read
Current contact-tracing statistics do not track coronavirus positive cases from receiving test results, nor factor in all close contacts for cases. Here is how to make it better.
Coronavirus: Which treatments work and which don’t?
5 min read
There is still a lot of uncertainty, but the picture is gradually getting clearer – here is what we know so far.
Coronavirus ‘excess deaths’ — Why England and Wales have been hardest hit in Europe.
5 min read
It is hard to make international comparisons of the COVID death rates in individual countries, but a new approach is giving scientists better data to work with.