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Aaron LevineAaron Levine, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in the article "New changes to state's virus data confuse experts, residents alike" on April 29, 2020 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The article explores the sources and implications of discrepancies in the state's reporting of the toll of the coronavirus pandemic. Levine, who has been closely tracking the numbers of the pandemic himself, spoke to the overall messiness and potential for error implicit in the process.
Excerpt:
“I think everyone gets mistakes will be made,” said Aaron Levine, an associate professor at Georgia Tech’s school of public policy who has also been critical about how DPH presents its data.. “This is real time. There’s lots of public attention with messy data sources coming from all sorts county health departments.”
