Covid by numbers : making sense of the pandemic with data

By:

Spiegelhalter, David

Contributor(s):

Masters, Anthony

Publication details: Dublin : Pelican Books, 2021Description: x, 297p 19 cmISBN:

9780241547731

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WA 900

Summary: Marshalling a wealth of data to show the effects of coronavirus in objective terms, Covid By Numbers is the ultimate guide for understanding the pandemic and its ever-unfurling consequences. How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What are the benefits and harms of different vaccines? How does COVID-19 compare to the Spanish flu? How have the lockdown measures affected the economy, mental health and crime? This year we have been bombarded by statistics - seven day rolling averages, rates of infection, excess deaths. Never have numbers been more central to our national conversation, and never has it been more important that we think about them clearly. In the media and in their Observer column, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter and RSS Statistical Ambassador Anthony Masters have interpreted these statistics, offering a vital public service by giving us the tools we need to make sense of the virus for ourselves and holding the government to account. In Covid by Numbers, they crunch the data on a year like no other, exposing the leading misconceptions about the virus and the vaccine, and answering our essential questions. This timely, concise and approachable book offers a rare depth of insight into one of the greatest upheavals in history, and a trustworthy guide to these most uncertain of times.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Hirson Library (St Helier) Shelves	WA 900 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		042176
Book	Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves	WC 506 SPI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		HOM0563

Marshalling a wealth of data to show the effects of coronavirus in objective terms, Covid By Numbers is the ultimate guide for understanding the pandemic and its ever-unfurling consequences.
How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What are the benefits and harms of different vaccines? How does COVID-19 compare to the Spanish flu? How have the lockdown measures affected the economy, mental health and crime?
This year we have been bombarded by statistics - seven day rolling averages, rates of infection, excess deaths. Never have numbers been more central to our national conversation, and never has it been more important that we think about them clearly. In the media and in their Observer column, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter and RSS Statistical Ambassador Anthony Masters have interpreted these statistics, offering a vital public service by giving us the tools we need to make sense of the virus for ourselves and holding the government to account.
In Covid by Numbers, they crunch the data on a year like no other, exposing the leading misconceptions about the virus and the vaccine, and answering our essential questions. This timely, concise and approachable book offers a rare depth of insight into one of the greatest upheavals in history, and a trustworthy guide to these most uncertain of times.

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