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  This is a quick follow-up to yesterday's post, 'Reasons to be cheerful'. I suggested there that looking at the same data in different ways...

Ok, not cheerful exactly, but optimistic. Often, looking at the same data in a different way can give a completely different perspective on...

The World Health Organisation officially declared the current Coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on 12 March.  A pandemic is technically defined as:...

  "Io resto a casa" translates as "I'm staying home" and is the latest message of solidarity against Coronavirus here in Italy. As you'll know,...

The picture above is a screenshot from a brilliant online epidemic calculator. It's based on a standard infectious disease model, SEIR...

  A few posts back I tried to explain the concept of herd immunity, since that seemed to be a cornerstone of the UK policy to handle the...

With uncanny timing, Adam Kucharski, who is a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has just published a book titled 'The...

Statistics is playing a fundamental role in supporting decision-makers by providing predictions of the Coronavirus epidemic spread and of the likely...

  The testing of individuals for COVID-19 has become an urgent and sensitive issue. Some of the main questions are: Who should get tested and...

One of the difficulties in determining how to respond to the Coronavirus epidemic is a lack of evidence with which to base decisions. But since some...

  There's been a lot of discussion this weekend about the approach proposed by the UK government for handling the Coronavirus epidemic and how...

  Thanks to those of you who wrote to say you found the previous post on the Coronavirus useful. A small caveat though: I really am no expert...