Covid By Numbers by David Spiegelhalter
Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data
A clear, data-driven account that explains how to interpret the pandemic’s numbers—cases, tests, hospitalizations and deaths—by stressing proper denominators, age and regional breakdowns, and the common pitfalls that lead to misleading comparisons. It unpacks key concepts such as infection-fatality versus case-fatality rates, excess mortality, test sensitivity and specificity, the reproduction number, and how seroprevalence and vaccination data alter risk estimates, while critiquing how statistics were presented and sometimes misused in public debate. Throughout it argues for probabilistic thinking, transparent communication and careful visualization to guide policy and personal decisions, without losing sight of the human consequences behind the figures.
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- 2021
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- British
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- English
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