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Getting baseline risks for case-control studies

Getting baseline risks for case-control studies

4 min readNov 3, 2020

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Getting baseline risks for case-control studies

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Top tips to statisticians communicating through the media, especially in the time of COVID-19

Kevin McConway (The Open University)* and David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge)**

9 min readJan 30, 2021

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Top tips to statisticians communicating through the media, especially in the time of COVID-19

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Why I am in a higher priority group for a vaccine than younger people with chronic health…

The Joint Committee for Vaccines and Immunisation (JCVI) has released its priority list for getting a Covid vaccine, which is as follows:

7 min readDec 4, 2020

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Why I am in a higher priority group for a vaccine than younger people with chronic health…

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What have been the fatal risks of Covid, particularly to children and younger adults?

Summary

9 min readJun 13, 2020

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What have been the fatal risks of Covid, particularly to children and younger adults?

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Is SARS-CoV-2 viral load lower in young children than adults?

Kevin McConway, ???

10 min readMay 25, 2020

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Is SARS-CoV-2 viral load lower in young children than adults?

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What are the risks of COVID? And what is meant by ‘the risks of COVID’?

As COVID-19 changes from being seen as a societal threat to a problem in risk management, it is essential that we get a handle on the…

6 min readMay 13, 2020

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What are the risks of COVID? And what is meant by ‘the risks of COVID’?

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COVID and ‘excess deaths’ in the week ending April 10th

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest data on death registrations at 9.30am on April 21st, covering the week ending…

5 min readApr 24, 2020

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COVID and ‘excess deaths’ in the week ending April 10th

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Does Covid raise everyone’s relative risk of dying by a similar amount? More evidence.

In a popular blog published on March 21st (which seems a lifetime ago), I argued that the estimated mortality rate of people whilst…

4 min readApr 11, 2020

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Does Covid raise everyone’s relative risk of dying by a similar amount? More evidence.

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How much ‘normal’ risk does Covid represent?

An article by Nick Triggle on BBC Online raises the issue of whether many deaths from COVID-19 would have occurred anyway as part of the…

4 min readMar 21, 2020

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How much ‘normal’ risk does Covid represent?

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Communication about Coronavirus

There’s been some dire headlines about the current outbreak , such as ‘Virus Panic’ from the Daily Mirror last week, featuring one woman…

3 min readMar 2, 2020

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Communication about Coronavirus

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David Spiegelhalter

David Spiegelhalter

Statistician, communicator about evidence, risk, probability, chance, uncertainty, etc. Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, Cambridge.

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