A quick warning here at the top, we play a little bit of tape with some swearing in it.

So you've been warned.

I want you to close your eyes and try to picture the face of the coronavirus.

Who do you see?

Maybe you see Andrew Cuomo giving a press conference or Tom Hanks in quarantine.

Maybe you're thinking about Boris Johnson, stuck in that ICU in London.

Akila Johnson from over ProPublica, she says this virus is moving so fast that the picture you've got in your head might be out of date.

One of the things that public health experts are constantly bringing up is that we're always two weeks behind.

We're getting ready to, and the data is showing us that the face of COVID, I don't want to say is changing, but is getting ready to look very different as a result of that 14-day delay.

This lag time, it's the result of testing delays, but also the inevitable weeks of waiting as symptoms wax and wane.

For a reporter, uncovering the face of the coronavirus feels a little like watching film develop in a dark room.

First, we learned the elderly were at risk, but children seemed to be safer.

Then it seemed like men were getting sicker than women.

The question that I think is driving me as a reporter,

and I think that is largely driving a lot of us,

is how do we get closer to the ground?

The stories from people in power tend to be easier to access. They have a bigger megaphone.

They have a bigger megaphone.

They're on social media.

They have access to more, you know, not just medical care,

but then the ability to get the story out.

Some cities began breaking down their infection rate by zip code to show who is more at risk.

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