More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Available now
Keep your distance
Tim Harford examines how can we avoid infection spreading, while getting on with life.
False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
How accurate are the swab tests used to diagnose Covid-19?
Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
What does the data show about whether this wave of the epidemic is waning in the UK?
60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
Can there really only be 60 harvests left in Earth's soil?
School re-opening, Germany鈥檚 Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
Will re-opening some schools put children or their teachers at risk?
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
Where do the different social distancing measurements come from?
Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule
Is Vitamin D an under-appreciated weapon in the fight against Covid-19?
Covid-19 fatality rate
Why don't we know how dangerous Covid -19 really is?
Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.
Did the UK really carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests in one day?
Climate change and birdsong
With factories closed and flights grounded, what impact will this have on climate change?