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Coronavirus numbers confusing you? Here's how to make sense of them

  • Written by Pamela M. Aaltonen, Professor Emerita; Immediate Past President, APHA, Purdue University
Coronavirus numbers confusing you? Here's how to make sense of themIn Irvine, Calif., a COVID-19 test is retrieved from a drive-in patient at Orange County Great Park. For four weeks, the testing station will see 520 patients per day. Getty Images / Allen J. Schaben

Turn on the TV news, or look at a news website, and you’ll see charts, graphics, and dashboards that supposedly indicate the latest with...

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