June 2, 2020

digest of the ONS stats on COVID-19 deaths

Once again we had three experts who kindly offered to look through the ONS stats on COVID19-related deaths which are published every Tuesday. Journalists joined this virtual briefing to hear their assessment of and thoughts about the stats, and to ask  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