Health
England lockdown was needed but graphs were a mess, says statistics guru – The Guardian
David Spiegelhalter singles out ‘ghastly’ Covid slide projecting 4,000 deaths
England needed dramatic action to reduce the spread of coronavirus, despite the governments messy presentation of data to justify the latest lockdown, according to an expert.
Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, a non-executive board member at the UK Statistics Authority, said one slide shown at last Saturdays press conference suggesting a possible peak of 4,000 deaths was really ghastly.
He said the data was out of date and had never been meant to be part of any formal document.
Spiegelhalter told BBC…
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