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Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data

99% Invisible

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Pendemic Data

There really were whole areas, especially race and ethnicity, where most states and territories never developed a really robust way to collect that kind of demographic data. When there would be a bad surge somewhere and lots of deaths, the people who fill out death certificates would get really behind, and so death numbers would lag. Or yet another example, really critical demographic data would just be missing. And it makes people mistrust data, as whet does.

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