To Fight Pandemics, We Need Better Data
The U.S. needs professional management and leadership of its health data supply chain.
The United States has had many problems coping with the coronavirus. A critical â and underappreciated â problem is bad data, which makes coping more difficult.
We still donât know how many people have the virus, how many are hospitalized, how many are in intensive care units, and how many are on ventilators. There is poor data on testing availability, and testing results are too often incorrect, delayed, or not counted. Contact tracing, necessary for avoiding community spread of coronavirus, lacks both the needed data and the human ...
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