Categories for Data and Modelling
The WHO’s Erroneous Risk Assessment
by Mikko Paunio, MD (University of Helsinki), MHS (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), adjunct professor (general epidemiology) at...
Read moreThe Real Fault with Epidemiological Models
by Hector Drummond Imperial College’s Professor Neil Ferguson has drawn a lot of criticism recently for the poor state of...
Read moreClimbing out of the Lobster Pot
by Guy de la Bédoyère “Let’s work the problem people. Let’s not make things worse by guessing.” So says Eugene...
Read moreHow at Risk Are Your Children From Coronavirus?
by Christine Brett Christine Brett is a freelance market access consultant and holds a Master’s degree in Economic Evaluation of...
Read moreSecond Analysis of Ferguson’s Model
by Sue Denim I’d like to provide a followup to my first analysis. Firstly because new information has come to...
Read moreHow Convincing is Imperial College’s COVID-19 Model?
A reader who describes himself as a “normal person” has tried to make sense of Imperial College’s notorious March 16th...
Read moreCode Review of Ferguson’s Model
by Sue Denim [Please note: a follow-up analysis is now available here.] Imperial finally released a derivative of Ferguson’s code....
Read more‘Carnage by Computer’: The Blackboard Economics of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic
This is an early version of a paper that was published in an academic journal in 2003, but it’s behind...
Read moreHas SARS-CoV-2 Fooled the Whole World?
This is a paper by Mikko Paunio M.D., M.H.S., an adjunct professor in general epidemiology at the University of Helsinki,...
Read moreHow Reliable is the Modelling?
One of the paradoxes of the coronavirus crisis is that the need for public scrutiny of government policy has never...
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