Visualizing the Covid-19 pandemic with doubling rates
Artwork by Bosny (bosnyart.com)As the popularity of coronavirus data visualizations increases, so does the risk…
Luke Anderson-Trocmé and Sahir BhatnagarJuly 10, 2020
A long tradition: Discussion meetings at the Royal Statistical Society
Discussion meetings are the most prestigious of the many types of meetings organised by the…
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
Covid-19 through the lens of the peer-reviewed literature: January to May 2020
Photo by Lysander Yuen on UnsplashAs medical students and budding clinical academics, we have been…
Samuel R. Neal and Cindy ZhengJune 9, 2020
Robust Bayesian modelling for Covid-19 data in Italy
mazzzur/BigstockphotoOn 21 February 2020, the first person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus responsible for…
Robbayes-C19June 2, 2020
A confluence of acute and chronic diseases: Risk factors among Covid-19 patients
Photo by De an Sun on UnsplashCovid-19 is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by…
TarekMay 27, 2020
A more transparent way to estimate and report daily Covid-19 deaths
Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on Unsplash“How many people have died in recent days…
Oliver Stoner and Theo EconomouMay 27, 2020
Removing the pump handle: Stewarding data at times of public health emergency
John Snow memorial in Broadwick Street, London. Photo by Justinc, sourced from WikipediaThere is a…
Reema PatelMay 20, 2020
Comparing and assessing Covid-19 tests
Image created by Russell TateThis article explores what people mean when they talk about testing…
Nathan GreenMay 19, 2020
The many definitions of a Covid-19 death toll
Photo by Dan Burton on UnsplashThis note considers the different measures of the death toll…
Simon BriscoeMay 13, 2020
Science in the face of Covid-19: faster, better, stronger?
Photo by Tedward Quinn on UnsplashOn 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared…
Simon Schwab and Leonhard HeldMay 8, 2020
Yellow fever experiments, and early informed consent
In the June 2020 issue of Significance, we tell the story of medical researchers in the…
Ronald D. Fricker, Jr and Steven E. RigdonMay 6, 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
Why England’s daily reported Covid-19 deaths are not the number of people that have died in a day
Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on UnsplashThe UK government provides an update during their…
Kathryn LeemingMay 5, 2020
Nightingale and the coronavirus pandemic: disease prevention, parallels and principles
An imaginary drawing of Florence Nightingale nursing in Scutari, by her sister Parthenope. Photographed at…
Lynn McDonaldApril 30, 2020
Now more than ever, African governments need reliable data
Community surveillance in times of Covid-19: A TB Reach health worker in Tanzania visits a…
Sandra Alba, Christina Mergenthaler and Roland KielmanApril 30, 2020
Bayes’ theorem and Covid-19 testing
Photo by Graham Ruttan on UnsplashI’m writing this article from the country with more confirmed…
Michael A. LewisApril 22, 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
Pandemic influenza and Covid–19: Geographical velocity and control
Photo by Juan Cruz Mountford on UnsplashOn 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew CliffApril 22, 2020
Some comparisons between Italy and the UK for Covid-19: March to April 2020
Photo by KOBU Agency on UnsplashWith the rapid global spread of Covid-19 in recent weeks,…
