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Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?
Does inflation hit poor households harder and how many people have died of Covid?
Are women 32% more likely to die after operations by a male surgeon?
Surgery death risks, Test and Trace costs in the UK and Germany, and podcast plans.
Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
An Omicron update, pandemic birth rates and the booster drive.
Twenty years of More or Less
A look back at our origins, plus the usual mix of numerical nous and statistical savvy.
Is it easy being green?
Expensive electricity, inadequate insulation, and a tale of tumbling trees.
Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut
Coronavirus checked, mask use measured, and a minister's claim questioned.
Death, Tax and Dishwashers
Why is estimating the number of unvaccinated people so tricky? And how deadly is 2021?
Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan
How worried should we be about antibodies? Plus food that shortens life.
Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
Has Brexit caused a fall in lorry drivers? Plus policing Extinction Rebellion.
The Freedom Day Gamble
Tim Harford and the team try to work out how long Covid cases will continue to rise.