At this time of pandemic, the news media is flooded with reports of coronavirus cases, treatments, deaths, and data and terminology that may prove confusing and/or overwhelming for members of the public. As a publication committed to explaining statistical ideas and concepts, we want to help readers understand what’s going on, to make sense of the data they are confronted with, and to put important information into the appropriate context.
Below is a list of all the articles we have published on Covid-19. If you would like to contribute to our coverage, please review our call for contributors.
- Investigating a disease outbreak – published 20 March 2020
- What to make of the coronavirus mortality rate? Communicating risk effectively – published 9 April 2020
- How do epidemiologists know how many people will get Covid-19? – published 9 April 2020
- How many people are infected with Covid-19? – published 9 April 2020
- Why we need more coronavirus tests than we think – published 9 April 2020
- Increasing testing capacity for SARS-CoV-2 by pooling specimens – published 9 April 2020
- A statistician’s guide to coronavirus numbers – published 9 April 2020
- The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Italian mobility – published 16 April 2020
- Visualising the pandemic: interviews with data journalists covering Covid-19 – published 21 April 2020
- Pandemics and exponential growth – published 21 April 2020
- Some comparisons between Italy and the UK for Covid-19: March to April 2020 – published 21 April 2020
- Pandemic influenza and Covid–19: Geographical velocity and control – published 22 April 2020
- Covid-19 data: To age or not to age; to date or not to date? – published 22 April 2020
- Bayes’ theorem and Covid-19 testing – published 22 April 2020
- Now more than ever, African governments need reliable data – published 30 April 2020
- Nightingale and the coronavirus pandemic: disease prevention, parallels and principles – published 30 April 2020
- To infer or not to infer: the UK’s inadequate public disclosure of Covid-19 swab test results – published 5 May 2020
- Why England’s daily reported Covid-19 deaths are not the number of people that have died in a day – published 5 May 2020
- Science in the face of Covid-19: faster, better, stronger? – published 8 May 2020
- The many definitions of a Covid-19 death toll – pubilshed 13 May 2020
- Comparing and assessing Covid-19 tests – published 19 May 2020
- Removing the pump handle: Stewarding data at times of public health emergency – published 20 May 2020
- A more transparent way to estimate and report daily Covid-19 deaths – published 27 May 2020
- A confluence of acute and chronic diseases: Risk factors among Covid-19 patients – published 27 May 2020
- Robust Bayesian modelling for Covid-19 data in Italy – published 2 June 2020
- Covid-19 through the lens of the peer-reviewed literature: January to May 2020 – published 9 June 2020
- Getting out of lockdown in the UK – published 16 June 2020
- Visualizing the Covid-19 pandemic with doubling rates – published 10 July 2020
- Undercounting mortality in the Covid-19 pandemic – published 10 July 2020
- Applying “zones of influence” to social distancing in schools – published 10 July 2020
- Leicester makes history in testing times – published 23 July 2020
- Covid-19 deaths: How are gender, age and underlying health condition related? – published 27 July 2020
- The spectre of Berkson’s paradox: Collider bias in Covid-19 research – published 29 July 2020
- After Covid-19, the US statistical system needs to change – published 29 July 2020
- Lethality of Covid-19 in Great Britain over 12 registration weeks – published 4 August 2020
- A perspective on real-time epidemic surveillance for Covid-19 – published 30 September 2020
- College sports and Covid-19. It’s complicated – published 1 October 2020
- The evolution of the endemic stage of the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy during summer 2020 – published 5 November 2020
- Controlling the spread of coronavirus via repeat testing and isolation – published 25 November 2020
- Covid-19 cases around the world – published 2 December 2020
- Covid-19: One year on… – published 3 February 2021
- Excess mortality reveals Covid’s true toll in Russia – published 3 February 2021
- Covid-19: A view from the sidelines – published 3 February 2021
- Vaccine rollouts, school testing and contact tracing could all be improved – here’s how – published 8 February 2021
- We need a randomized study of the UK’s decision to defer second doses of the mRNA vaccine – published 11 February 2021
- Using Zipf’s law to help understand Covid-19 – published 18 March 2021
- Covid-19 tweets analysis for human emotion detection – published 18 March 2021
- Covid-19 and high school grades: An early case study – published 26 March 2021
- Sound human, steer clear of jargon, and be prepared – published 26 March 2021
- As Covid makes clear, statistics education is a must – published 26 March 2021
- Building back better needs better use of statistics – published 26 March 2021
- Covid tests in secondary schools: A statistical cause célèbre – published 26 May 2021
- How ideas from decision theory can help guide our actions – published 11 August 2021
