A Federal Data Failure Is Making It Hard to Talk About COVID

Government Executive: “Can we talk?” comedian Joan Rivers always asked. When it comes to COVID-19, the answer seems to be no.

To talk about COVID, let alone act effectively to stop it, we need a common language that we all understand and on which scientists can base their work. But from the very beginning, the issue—and the language we’ve tried to use to talk about it—has been hyper-politicized, and that’s been a major impediment in the nation’s efforts to attack the virus.

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