SU How Bureaucratic Agencies Handled the COVID 19 Pandemic Discussion

Significance magazine is a publication of the American Statistical Association and the Royal Statistical Society. It’s a source of freely available articles on findings from applied statistical analyses, including many articles on public policy topics. 

Please find a recently published article from Significance on a public policy topic of interest to you and summarize the article. In your summary, please include the research question, the data source, methods, and conclusions. 

Did the article use statistics that were familiar to you? Was the article written in such a way that public policy practitioners could apply the findings to their situation? Why or why not? If not, how might such information be altered so that it would be more helpful to practitioners?