The Pandemic Metric to Trust Right Now
Death and case counts are unreliable during the holidays, but hospitalizations are hitting new records in the South and West.
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On weekends, some of the people in labs, health departments, hospitals, and medical examiner’s offices who do the work of translating individual illnesses and deaths into data points get to go home. On Sundays and Mondays, when weekend
