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Tracking Covid 19
Which countries are doing well at keeping track of the virus? And which are not?
This year has shown us the importance of good robust data - as Covid-19 spread around the world it was vital to track where it was, how many people it was infecting and where it might go next. On More or Less we鈥檝e spent months reporting on data inaccuracies and vacuums, but what makes for good or indeed bad data? I鈥檝e been speaking to Amy Maxmen, Senior reporter at the scientific journal 鈥楴ature鈥� about which countries are getting data collection right and which aren鈥檛.
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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life.
