#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
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Is There a Coordination of Reporting for Pandemics?
Full page reports right on the individual case have a lot of value. But at some point you just get to a level that is physically impossible to pass. And I think this probably the system has been designed for smaller outbreaks like maybe Ebola or something like that where it is literally possible to do a few hundred cases a day, but yeah, at some point it's kind of breaks down. "I'm completely willing to think that yeah, COVID was the first example of that"
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