Hospital league tables: a statistician’s view
Hospital league tables could be returning to the UK. On the 21st anniversary of the…
Sheila M. BirdDecember 2, 2024
We need a randomized study of the UK’s decision to defer second doses of the mRNA vaccine
Photo by John Cameron on UnsplashJust a few days before the UK began its roll-out…
Leicester makes history in testing times
Photo by Geoffrey HaywardLeicester made demographic history as the first city in England where the…
Sheila M. BirdJuly 23, 2020
Getting out of lockdown in the UK – slowly, with robust reporting standards, and important intelligence about new infections
Much is expected from the UK’s symptomatic Test and Trace system (sT&T), and all of us must…
Sheila M. BirdJune 16, 2020
To infer or not to infer: the UK’s inadequate public disclosure of Covid-19 swab test results
The World Health Organization asks governments to consider two questions when carrying out risk assessments…
Sheila M. BirdMay 5, 2020
Covid-19 data: To age or not to age; to date or not to date?
Pandemic swine-flu, which emerged from Mexico in spring 2009, was a wild thing but a…
Sheila M. BirdApril 22, 2020
