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The Atlantic Daily: We’re Still Thinking About the Pandemic Wrong
Data are the key to understanding this pandemic, and yet America has never fully understood its own data systems. Plus: A family that lives permanently on daylight saving time.
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In a pandemic, numbers are king. “
Data might seem like an overly technical obsession,” Robinson Meyer and Alexis C. Madrigal wrote today. “But data are how our leaders apprehend reality.”