Contributions
I analyzed data published by The Covid Tracking Project and The New York Times on COVID-19 testing and infections, focusing on geographies within California and Florida to assess outcomes of policy decisions early on in the pandemic.
I consulted with researchers in statistics, public health, and epidemiology to develop methods for analysis.1 Though ultimately I could not surmount the data quality issues to express outcome differences confidently, I collaborated with other reporters to explain the essentiality of that very data quality to informing better policy.