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Can We Even Trust the Testing Data?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
Episode • May 19, 2020 • 24m

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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