How coronavirus charts can mislead us

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A Vox explainer on how charts of the coronavirus pandemic can mislead readers. It looks at how choices in scale, data and presentation change what a chart appears to say.

Submitted twice in 2020 as a useful short guide to reading pandemic charts critically.

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