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To effectively combat the spread of the coronavirus, America needs to be able to count. So far, the country is failing.
A key metric in the coronavirus outbreak is the number of people tested. Without that data, other information — like the number of confirmed cases — is much less meaningful. As of this writing, there are 804 confirmed coronavirus cases…