Abstract
A leading statistician has welcomed an announcement by the government that it is changing the way it reports covid-19 swab test results. On 11 May David Norgrove, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, wrote to Matt Hancock urging the government to make its data on the national covid-19 testing strategy clearer.1 In his reply to Norgrove, sent on 27 May, the health secretary said that developments to improve data reporting were already under way.2 He said that the government had published a clear definition of how the target to perform 200 000 tests a day by the end of May would be measured and reported. “Capacity will be measured across testing pillars 1, 2, 3, and 4 by asking laboratories each day to set out how many tests they …
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