More or Less: Behind the Stats

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Belarus’ contested election

Autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko claims to have won a landslide in the country’s...

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Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?

Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK - is it a sign of a second wave of the virus? We’re picking...

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Melting Antarctic ice

One More or Less listener has heard that if all the ice in Antarctica melted, global sea levels...

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Covid in Africa

Do we have enough data to know what’s happening on the continent? We talk to Dr Justin Maeda from...

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Data in the time of cholera

Tim Harford speaks to Steven Johnson about William Farr and the birth of epidemiology in the 1800s.

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Covid misconceptions and US deaths

Tim Harford talks to statistician Ola Rosling about his research into misconceptions about...

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Sweden’s lockdown lite

Unlike its Nordic neighbours, Sweden never imposed a lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus....

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Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback

Are cases really rising in the US or are they just testing more? Tim digs into the data.

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Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?

The UK has suffered one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus anywhere in the world. We’ve been...

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A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave

The steroid Dexamethasone has been hailed a “major breakthrough” in the treatment of Covid-19....

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Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave

As lockdown eases, why hasn't there been a spike in infections? We get a first look at the...

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Who Should be Quarantined?

Some countries are requiring new arrivals to self-isolate, a policy designed to stop infection...

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Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

The UK has introduced new rules requiring all people arriving in the country to self-isolate for...

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Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

At the start of March the government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said that...

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Keep your distance

What difference does a metre make? The World Health Organisation recommends that people keep at...

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False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants

As lockdowns begin to lift the government is relying on testing and contact tracing programmes to...

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Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?

More than 35,000 people in the UK have now officially died from Covid-19, but what does the data...

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60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots

A listener asks if there can really only be 60 harvests left in Earth's soil. Are we heading for...

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School Re-opening, Germany’s Covid Success and Statistically Savvy Parrots

Risk expert David Spiegelhalter discusses whether re-opening some schools could be dangerous for...

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Social Distancing and Government Borrowing

As lockdowns start to lift, many countries are relying on social distancing to continue to slow...

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