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Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data

99% Invisible

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Do You Think the Covid Tracking Project Was Doing a Good Job or Were They Just Not Doing It?

In those early days, the people at the covid tracking project certainly thought that the government had its own comprehensive numbers. But then they started noticing some weird coincidences. And then their suspicions were later confirmed when the trump administration published a report that clearly used the project's data and charts in the footnotes. "We grieve the loss of more than forty seven thousand of our countrymen"

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