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Jonathan Wakefield
Jonathan Wakefield
India's Objections To WHO COVID-19 Mortality Estimates Are Misleading, Experts Say
IndiaSpend,

Unlike claims made by the Indian government in its press release, the WHO's estimates do not rely on models that include factors like seasonal variations in temperature, Jon Wakefield, professor of statistics and biostatistics at the University of Washington, who had led the modelling for India as a member of the TAG, explained

Kathleen Kerr
Kathleen Kerr
New research yields insight into skin cancer overdiagnosis
Kathleen Kerr, professor of biostatistics, is lead author of a recent JAMA Dermatology study that examined perceptions of skin cancer overdiagnosis among dermatopathologists.
Daniela Witten
Daniela Witten
Daniela Witten elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Daniela Witten, professor of statistics and biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
Healthcare workers stand at the entrance of a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad in January 2022. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters
Healthcare workers stand at the entrance of a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad in January 2022. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters
Covid-19: India accused of trying to delay WHO revision of death toll
The Guardian,

India has called into question the methodology used by the WHO to calculate its death toll from Covid-19. Jon Wakefield, a professor of statistics and biostatistics at the University of Washington who was one of those involved in the modelling for the WHO, released a statement that explained the methodology in detail and rebutted the claims made by the Indian government about the veracity of the modelling.

India mass cremation site, photo courtesy Atul Loke for NYTimes
India mass cremation site, photo courtesy Atul Loke for NYTimes
India is Stalling the W.H.0.'s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
New York Times,

Jon Wakefield, UW professor of statistics and biostatistics who played a key role in building the model used for estimates of the World Health Organization global data of COVID death estimates is quoted in this story and says the numbers represent what statisticians and researchers call “excess mortality” — the difference between all deaths that occurred and those that would have been expected to occur under normal circumstances.