Sheila M. Bird, Author at Significance magazine

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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

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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…

Sheila M. BirdFebruary 11, 2021

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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

people network

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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

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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 UK dashboard

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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