More or Less: Behind the Stats

Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

<p>The UK has introduced new rules requiring all people arriving in the country to self-isolate for 14 days. But given the severity of the UK’s outbreak can there be many places more infectious? Is it true that Covid-19 mostly kills people who would die soon anyway? The first figures are out showing how England’s Test and Trace programme is performing, but they contain a mystery we’re keen to resolve. And we play with some mathematical puzzles, courtesy of statistician Jen Rogers.</p>

<p>Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4</p>