What Next TBD: The COVID Data Disaster

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Are we facing down yet another COVID wave right now? Does it matter? Guest: Katherine Wu, staff writer for The Atlantic Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5	Lately, I've found myself struggling to understand this particular phase of the pandemic.
0:40.5	On Monday, a federal judge voided the transportation mask mandate. But at the same time, both from
0:46.7	people I know getting sick, news stories and tracking data, COVID cases are ticking up.
0:53.6	So I called up Catherine Wu. She's a reporter for the
0:56.5	Atlantic, and COVID is one of the things she covers. All right, I think I need to ask you the question.
1:04.8	Are we in a wave? Oh, I think that invites another question, which is what is a wave?
1:14.1	Catherine has a PhD in microbiology and immunobiology.
1:18.5	Her COVID coverage is indispensable.
1:21.7	It's infused with a level of understanding and rigor that you don't always find in health news. It's not really a term with a formal
1:30.4	epidemiological or mathematical definition. It's almost a kind of you know it when you see it sort of thing.
1:36.2	But you can imagine it is kind of a deviation away from the norm. Being able to see that deviation,
1:43.7	to quantify it takes data. And in the U.S., good data
1:48.4	about COVID cases has gotten harder and harder to come by. We are kind of in a data disaster right now,
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