Colorful maps on the new online Health Equity Tracker reveal how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected different races and age groups across the United States, but you can tell something is not quite right.
A handful of states are grayed out, and that’s not because they’ve escaped the pandemic.
“There’s no data coming out of Texas,” points out software engineer Josh Zarrabi of Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine, which recently rolled out the tracking portal. “A lot of Americans should be unhappy about that. And they should say, like, ‘Wow, like, we need the data, right, because we’re missing a huge piece of the puzzle here.’ ”
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