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Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
Was it bad decision-making, bad advice, or bad luck? We look back through the events of March 2020 to ask why things have gone so wrong.
The UK has suffered one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus anywhere in the world. We鈥檝e been tracking and analysing the numbers for the last 14 weeks, and in the last programme of this More or Less series, we look back through the events of March 2020 to ask why things went so wrong - was it bad decision-making, bad advice, or bad luck?
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?
