May 19, 2020

digest of the ONS stats on COVID-19 deaths

As has happened for the last few weeks, we had three statisticians who kindly offered to look through the ONS stats on COVID deaths published this Tuesday morning.  Journalists, joined us in a virtual briefing to hear them present the data and answer questions.

Speakers will include:

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