Why Emily Oster Made Her Own COVID-19 Database

Data has been such a valuable commodity during the pandemic. Unfortunately, at times data has been in short supply, because US government agencies haven't always undertaken national data collection efforts. So what happens when individuals citizens try to collect data themselves? We talk to Professor Emily Oster, who developed a national COVID-19 School Response Dashboard, to find out what she's learned about COVID in schools, the implications of volunteers developing their own public health trackers, and how she thinks the Biden administration will approach pandemic data collection.

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Why Emily Oster Made Her Own COVID-19 Database is an episode from PODCAST-19: FiveThirtyEight on the Novel Coronavirus by FiveThirtyEight.com.

This episode is 20:15 long.

This episode was published on Dec 11, 2020.

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