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Andy Cowper

Andy Cowper: Data not dates, and all that

June 16, 2021

On Monday 14 June, the government announced a four week delay to ending covid-19 restrictions in England as had been planned from the 21 June. The announcement came after extensive […]

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Andy Cowper: An ARIA of revenge, sung by Dominic Cummings

March 19, 2021

Evidence given this week to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee by blogger and data science fanboy Dominic Cummings (ex-leader of the Brexit referendum-winning Vote Leave campaign and […]

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The hesitancy paradox of “data, not dates” and the government’s roadmap to unlocking

March 8, 2021

It’s a mistake for the government to be so opaque about the data they’ll use to guide our exit from lockdown, writes Andy Cowper […]

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Andy Cowper: The Budget? Fudge it

March 5, 2021

“If you can’t budge it, fudge it” could well end up as the motto of Boris Johnson’s government, particularly when it comes to health and social care. The Budget announced […]

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Andy Cowper: Four key things you may have missed this week

December 4, 2020

The obvious excitement of the news that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for covid-19 for rollout in the UK, coupled with the minor-key […]

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Andy Cowper: Hope of a covid-19 vaccine is good news, but comes with many uncertainties

November 11, 2020

The announcement on Monday of a covid-19 vaccine candidate feels as if it has changed the game in dealing with covid-19. According to a press release of the Phase III study, […]

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Andy Cowper: Johnson is late to lockdown—yet again

November 3, 2020

To the considerable surprise of very few people, on Saturday 31 October, the UK’s prime minister Boris Johnson announced a second national lockdown in England, to halt the increased spread […]

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Andy Cowper: Tiers of a clown

October 13, 2020

New covid-19 restrictions in England may not go far enough and don’t address existing problems with test and trace, says Andy Cowper […]

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Andy Cowper: The public health of politics and the politics of public health

May 29, 2020

A global pandemic of a potentially fatal respiratory disease is probably the worst time for politics and public health to collide. In the political dance of covid-19, we have seen […]

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