Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Coronavirus Is an Enemy America Still Can’t See

Without testing data, we’re flying blind and making guesses.

March 25, 2020 at 8:48 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

The goggles don’t help with vision.
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Americans are used to swimming in a sea of data, from football stats for fantasy leagues to the personal info Big Tech mines to shove ads in our faces. And yet in the biggest crisis in many of our lifetimes, hard numbers are suddenly scarce.