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Vaccine numbers

How much protection will a new Covid-19 vaccine give?

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Inviting Covid for Dinner

If you go to a gathering of 25 people, what are the chances one of you has coronavirus?

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Tracking Covid 19

Which countries are doing well at keeping track of the virus?

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Vaccines: How safe and who gets it?

Is it too soon to approve for use? Plus choosing who goes first.

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QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked

Tackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.

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The economics of a Covid Christmas

What to consider when buying presents this year

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Numbers of the year: Part one

Tim Harford showcases statistics from 2020

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Numbers of the year: Part two

Tim Harford showcases statistics from 2020

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Ants and Algorithms

David Sumpter describes the algorithms ruling the world

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How effective is one Covid vaccine dose?

Calculating the protection given by the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine

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Counting Covid鈥檚 impact on GDP

Which countries have done worse, and what can GDP tell us?

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The rapid test row

The huge row among scientists about rapid coronavirus tests.

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Glasgow vs Rwanda

Could life expectancy in some parts of Glasgow be worse than in Rwanda?

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How much Covid in the world?

Counting all the virus particles in every human on the planet.

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Covid 19 death count: Which countries are faring worst?

Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the available data.

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Why are US Covid cases falling?

From herd immunity to the weather, Tim Harford explores the theories

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Sainthood and Cup draws

Your chances of becoming a saint, plus football odds.

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The truth about obesity and Covid-19

Are countries with higher obesity rates suffering from more deaths?

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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine

Weighing up the risk of unproven side effects with stopping Covid-19

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In praise of Covid Data

How we came to expect dashboards full of statistics.

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Too fast for Minecraft?

Gamers raise suspicions over speed run times - are they right?

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Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine

AstraZeneca鈥檚 clot controversy turns attention on the contraceptive pill.

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How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need

Adding together the doses for everyone on the planet.

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Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?

We ask if this year鈥檚 global death toll will surpass 1.8 million.

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Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world

How an obscure theory came into fashion.

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Finding Mexico City鈥檚 real death toll

How two data detectives revealed the pandemic鈥檚 impact.

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Explaining maths without Numbers

Tim Harford speaks to mathematician Milo Beckman.

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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

The Recovery Trial identified drugs that helped save lives.

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The Seaspiracy 鈥渧irtually empty ocean鈥� claim

Why it鈥檚 unlikely our oceans will be virtually empty by 2048.

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Wales Vaccine Success

How to distribute jabs efficiently; plus adding 28 to 47

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