Can We Even Trust the Testing Data?
Nationwide data collection is critical here. The CDC hasn’t distinguished itself.

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Episode Notes
We closed down the country because we didn’t have enough COVID-19 tests. Now that testing capacity is improving, there’s another problem: figuring out what all this new data means, and who’s reporting accurate figures.
Guest: Robinson Meyer, staff writer at the Atlantic, and part of the team working on the COVID Tracking Project.
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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Danielle Hewitt.