Link blog: covid19, mathematics, model, nhsx

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Expert reaction to unpublished paper modelling what percentage of the UK population may have been exposed to COVID-19 | Science Media Centre

It’s an interesting paper but consensus seems to be that it’s not a good reason to give up lockdown (it’s ancient history from back in March now, but some discussion going on on UnHerd after they interviewed one of the researchers).
(tags: covid19 model mathematics)

James Hay on Twitter: “A recent analysis from Oxford presented a range of model scenarios consistent with observed COVID death counts. I’m going to reproduce their analysis here and then present some slight modifications to provide a conservative (if te

A good thread on what that Oxford team did.
(tags: covid19 model mathematics bayesian)

Staying alive: background tracing the NHS COVID-19 app – Reincubate

How’s the NHSX contact tracing app going to stay alive in the background on IOS? How does it work?
(tags: nhs health covid19 app nhsx android ios Bluetooth)

Knight Rider for 8 cellos – YouTube

Yay!
(tags: tv music knight-rider)

Do any Covid-19 ‘cures’ actually work? – UnHerd

All studies so far flawed, including the flaw of eliminating dead people from the stufy. Tom Chivers continues to be one of the few worthwhile things on UnHinged.
(tags: covid19 science drugs tom-chivers)

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