As I write this, it is mid April 2020 and we are about 5 weeks into the lock-down that has been the response to the epidemic caused by Covid 19. Covid19 is the current epidemic, but some sort of pandemic was widely predicted for many years and then just ignored Continue Reading
Covid-19 as of 10th April 2020
The following statistics spell out the impact of this virus as collated by http://ourworldindata.org . This is what an exponential growth looks like: And this is how we compare with other countries. Note that it is a LOG scale I was surprised that the ‘normal death toll in the UK Continue Reading