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Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

Are more people are dying of Covid-19 in the UK than all the EU countries put together? Can coronavirus antibody tests really be 100% accurate?

At the start of March the government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said that the UK鈥檚 coronavirus outbreak was four weeks behind the epidemic in Italy. This ability to watch other countries deal with the disease ahead of us potentially influenced the decisions we made about which actions to take and when, including lockdown. So was he right?

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    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.