On this week’s episode of Radio Corona, we discover why the US has no concept handle all the testing data it’s amassing. 

Final week, reporter Neel Patel wrote about how the US’s decentralized public well being system means there aren’t any widespread requirements for reporting testing data. That might create chaos in makes an attempt to struggle the pandemic, particularly on the subject of making selections about when and ease lockdown restrictions.

On Radio Corona, Gideon Lichfield, editor-in-chief of MIT Know-how Evaluate, will focus on the downside of testing data and the way it may be mounted with Neel and one of his sources—Erich Huang, assistant dean of bioinformatics at Duke College.

We are going to broadcast the interview right here on this web page on May 14th at 4:30pm US Japanese time, in addition to on Fb, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Twitch. As traditional, you’ll submit questions of your individual right here. And take a look at earlier episodes of Radio Corona on subjects like vaccine trials, drug analysis, working from residence, the financial impacts of covid, pandemic preparedness, and extra.