Playing the UK’s quarantine lottery
Countries seem to drop on and off the UK government’s 14 day quarantine list in an apparently unpredictable way. I looked at some of the underlying case rate statistics to see if we can predict what changes might be coming next.
Fact checking Boris Johnson’s claim that airport testing would only catch 7% of cases
Boris Johnson rejected industry calls to replace quarantines with airport testing last week, saying that tests would only catch 7% of cases. Where does this statistic come from and does it stand up to scrutiny?