lack of data on the spread of COVID

These infections may have contributed to the feeling of futility. "'I worked hard. And despite all
that work, I still made it. So why should I try?' Kennedy, director of the Canada project to
monitor, said.

Vaccination, masking, medication or antibody treatment can reduce the severity of the infection
and reduce the chances of infecting others. "We should have talked about this as a community
health issue, not an individual health issue," says Chapple-McGruder. “We are also not talking
about the fact that the use of [these tools] is far from what is necessary to avoid hundreds of
deaths every day.”

The lack of data on the spread of COVID-19 makes it difficult to tell if the pandemic will end.
Beth Brauer, data director for the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University,
says the influx of home tests is "a blessing and a curse" in the United States. The test produced
an immediate readout indicating if it was infected and if it should be quarantined. However,
these results were rarely reported to health authorities, making it difficult to estimate the actual
number of cases, leading to large data gaps (SN Online:
5/27/22).