Covid-2019 - 2022-09-24

In "Recommended Reading," a friend points us to an article in The Lancet documenting the creation, evolution and maintenance of the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard. From the beginning, it has been our primary source for daily new cases and fatalities for US states and every nation in the world (we are among the 226 billion "feature layer requests" logged through mid-year. An amazing achievement of data-collection, cleaning and presentation. For all that, it remains only one of many sources we must access every day to produce this report. Surely COVID holds the record for most data generated most often viewed my most people. We wish we could say it made any difference in the world's generally botched response to the pandemic. It almost seems like the more data we had the less wisely we acted.