January 2022
Beginner
136 pages
4h 15m
English
‘The only positive I can think of during this entire pandemic nightmare is that some of us may have learnt to read a graph’, Gary Lineker, ex-footballer and TV presenter, on Twitter, 26 October 2020.
For months during the pandemic, TV news bulletins on the BBC carried counts of the number of people newly infected with Covid-19, the number of people admitted to hospital with the disease, and, sadly, the number of deaths. These daily counts were displayed as a series of bar charts with lines added to represent the seven-day moving average. As the pandemic evolved, even more data were presented. The number of first and second dose vaccinations administered the previous ...