Counting the Infected

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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For months, the U.S. government has been quietly collecting information on hundreds of thousands of coronavirus cases across the country. Today, we tell the story of how The Times got hold of that data, and what it says about the nation’s outbreak. Plus: a conversation with three U.S. astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Guests: Robert Gebeloff, a reporter for The New York Times specializing in data analysis. Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley and Chris Cassidy, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: The C.D.C. figures provide the fullest and most extensive look yet at the racial inequity of the coronavirus.A Times analysis published in late May found that Democrats were far more likely to live in counties that had been ravaged by the virus, while Republicans were more likely to live in counties that had been relatively unscathed.A team of New York Times journalists is also working to track every coronavirus case in the United States, and The Times has made its data open to the public.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:33.0	This is Daily.
0:36.0	Today, for months, the US government has been quietly collecting information on hundreds
0:48.6	of thousands of coronavirus cases across the country.
0:53.7	My colleague Robert Gebelof on the story of how the Times obtained that data.
1:03.4	It's Wednesday, July 8.
1:09.7	Robert, you live in a corner of the Times, the data team, that I'm not sure most people
1:13.7	understand all that well.
1:14.8	So when the pandemic starts, how do you all respond?
1:19.4	So by training, my goal is to find stories that can best be told through data, which is
1:29.6	not every story, but there's a lot of stories out there.
1:32.4	So if you go back to early March, the pandemic is starting.
1:38.6	I know that our job as a New York Times is to really get our arms around what's going
1:46.0	on and by that to start collecting the data that is starting to come out about cases and
1:52.9	deaths around the country.
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