May 12, 2020

digest of the ONS stats on COVID-19 deaths

Once again, David, Carl and Jason kindly offered to analyse the newly released ONS stats on COVID-19 deaths from the morning of May 12th and were then available for an online briefing to present their conclusions and answer journalists questions.  

Speakers included:

Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge

Prof Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford

Dr Jason Oke, Senior Statistician at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford