June 9, 2020

digest of the ONS stats on COVID-19 deaths

Once again we had three experts who looked through the latest ONS stats on COVID19-related deaths published every Tuesday morning, and they were able to offer journalists their take on the stats in this afternoon briefing.  Journalists joined this virtual briefing  to hear their assessment of and thoughts about the stats, and to have their stats questions answered.

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