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…
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
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
Graphical interpretations of data: An introduction
This is the first of a series of articles on the design of simple graphs…
Allan ReeseAugust 22, 2017
Frog kissing. Or, why do we never learn?
A friend pointed me to this story about the average number of men (or rather…
Robin EvansFebruary 14, 2014
Does RIOT foretell the end of privacy?
As Valentine's Day nears, those of us who still have an empty dance card for…
Stephanie KovalchikFebruary 13, 2013
