In today's Essential California newsletter, sherlyholmes spoke to Times health and science reporter Emily_Baum about the spread of coronavirus
I called up someone much smarter than me — in this case, Times health and science reporter
“The reason that underlies every other question is you can’t determine the death rate, you can’t determine what portion of the cases are severe, you can’t determine how likely it is to spread and where it’s likely to spread if you don’t know how many cases there are,” Baumgaertner explained. “That’s sort of the No. 1 question that hundreds of experts are working together to try to answer.” Of course, that number itself is also constantly increasing.
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