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The Freedom Day Gamble

The Freedom Day Gamble

Tim Harford and the team try to work out how long Covid cases will continue to rise.

More or Less · BBC Radio 4

July 19, 202128m 44s

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Show Notes

On the day the Government plans to drop the remaining Covid restirictions, Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to work out how long cases will continue to rise and whether we can be sure the link with deaths and hospitalisations has been broken. Is this “freedom day" or an unnecessary gamble with people’s lives?