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The Importance of Representation in Data

The CDC uses a data set for COVID case counts and hospitalizations and deaths. One core challenge we found was the way race and ethnicity is included in the data set. Some people identify it as maybe Black Hispanic, maybe they lost the demographic detail of their race being Black. So what that does at a broader scale, it adjusts our perceived impacts to populations.

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