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Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data

99% Invisible

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The Data Driven Pandemic Response

There was a huge shortage of tests for hospitals to use at the beginning of the panademic. Without much testing, it was hard to know what was happening on the ground. It was also hard to find numbers on how many people were hospitalized and how many people had id. The bills of mortality were these mortality reports that were published in london in the 16 hundreds. John grant thought there is more to be learned from these documents.

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