Autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko claims to have won a landslide in the country’s...
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Tim Harford speaks to Steven Johnson about William Farr and the birth of epidemiology in the 1800s.
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Unlike its Nordic neighbours, Sweden never imposed a lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus....
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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...
A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
The steroid Dexamethasone has been hailed a “major breakthrough” in the treatment of Covid-19....
Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
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Some countries are requiring new arrivals to self-isolate, a policy designed to stop infection...
Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
The UK has introduced new rules requiring all people arriving in the country to self-isolate for...
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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False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
As lockdowns begin to lift the government is relying on testing and contact tracing programmes to...
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...
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...
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...
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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