Confused by pandemic data? Here’s some help reading it.

There’s no shortage of data on the pandemic, so it’s difficult to know what to look at to understand how populations are faring. For the best picture, it pays to watch a few key indicators.

With the rollout of vaccines, we have entered a more hopeful phase in the fight against COVID-19. But how does one make sense of the labyrinth of 14-day averages, hospitalization rates, positivity percentages, and caseloads?

Step one is picking a reliable data source and following it throughout the pandemic.

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