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Year: 2020

Do healthy people die of Covid-19?

By Monkey Posted on August 26, 2020 Posted in Commentary Tagged with coronavirus, COVID-19, epidemiology, statistics

I’ve been asked to write this because this question is one of the most commonly asked on Google, so lots of us have questions about our risk. We’re entering a phase of disease management where it is difficult to balance …

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What happened in Spain?

By Monkey Posted on May 31, 2020 Posted in Commentary No Comments Tagged with coronavirus, COVID-19, public health, statistics

I’m a bit wary of becoming one of those armchair epidemiologists who’s wise after the fact and pontificates on what people under far more pressure decided when they didn’t have the benefit of hindsight. So I won’t. Pontificate, that is. …

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How’s Germany doing?

By Monkey Posted on May 30, 2020 Posted in Commentary No Comments Tagged with coronavirus, COVID-19, public health, statistics

I’ve written a couple of posts now on Covid-19 where I’ve mentioned that Germany is held up as a great example of success but where all-cause mortality data aren’t available. Well, now they are. On 22nd May, the Federal Statistical …

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Covid-19: Let’s continue to be balanced

By Monkey Posted on May 23, 2020 Posted in Commentary No Comments Tagged with coronavirus, COVID-19, public health, statistics

Back in April, I wrote a post about coronavirus because I was getting annoyed by the poor quality of statistical reporting and was trying to make sense of the situation myself. Today, I want to revisit the data I used …

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How science and statistics can keep us balanced

By Monkey Posted on April 24, 2020 Posted in Commentary No Comments Tagged with coronavirus, COVID-19, public health, statistics

I have’t posted on Monkeyglandin for a long time, but I want to share a little bit on the off chance that it’s of some use. A big part of good quality analysis is looking at the world objectively and …

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