CV19: “The UK’s data collection and reporting of swab testing is a travesty of statistical science, as you can draw no inferences whatsoever about the evolution of the epidemic,” Sheila Bird, former programme leader at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge bmj.com/content/369/bm…
A reminder of the Government’s 4 testing pillars 
Sheila Bird is on the Royal Statistical Society COVID-19 task force. Relieved they have picked up on the ineptitude of lumping test data from different groups together is unhelpful.
A test should not be recorded as a test until swabs are taken, and data on date/age/sex recorded
A test should not be recorded as a test until swabs are taken, and data on date/age/sex recorded
That was supposed to be a lesson learned from Swine flu’.
Also the tracking of each patient by a unique serial number, regardless of the number of tests is critical to avoid double counting.
It seems the DHSC have the data, just not given to the public that way. Wonder why?
Also the tracking of each patient by a unique serial number, regardless of the number of tests is critical to avoid double counting.
It seems the DHSC have the data, just not given to the public that way. Wonder why?
