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use data that does not need statistics
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics with tags COVID, pandemics, placebo effect, vaccine, xkcd on March 2, 2021 by xi'an
additional deaths in England & Wales
Posted in Statistics with tags blame game, COVID, England, Germany, Italy, Office for National Statistics, pandemics, Portugal, The Guardian, UK, United Kingdom on August 5, 2020 by xi'an
Source: United Kingdom Office for National Statistics
David Spiegelhalter wrote another piece for The Guardian about the number of COVID-related deaths in Britain, remarking that with the objective statistic of excess death, the kingdom is doing worse than any other country, including Belgium which is reported as the worst performer in the fight again the pandemic based on its reported COVID death numbers. David also shows the proper degree of caution in providing reasons for this terrible record rather than starting the blame game. One factor differentiating England from other countries like Italy being the spread of its COVID clusters, partly due to the higher mobility of the population, in particular its travelling for vacations. (The comparison also reveals a stable higher level of overall mortality in the UK when compared with south-west EU countries, except Portugal. It surprisingly misses Germany, which is unlikely to be a country with missing statistics!)
