Gaps in Data Are Crippling Efforts to Confront COVID-19Written by Ed Tittel Published: 17 April 2020As the popular ad for Farmers Insurance Group puts it, "What you don't know can hurt you." I’ve always taken it to mean that so-called interesting times are best appreciated from a distance, either in time or space (preferably, both). We are all living in interesting times now, of course, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Interesting times, indeed — readers will agree with me that “too interesting by far” is not an unfair characterization. We desperately need data to illuminate, isolate, and protect ourselves as best we can.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 17, 2020 16:18 UTC