Baking Better With Cochrane-Orcutt (part 5)
Assessing the influence of mass viral testing programmes on case positivity: are we experiencing a testdemic? (rev 1.1)
I am hoping that subscribers have picked up on the key take home message in these last few newsletters, this being that the time series for daily counts of new COVID cases by specimen date across England possesses strong serial correlation (autocorrelation) with a periodicity of 7 days that can only arise if we are living through a testdemic. Ergo we sh…