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                    "text": "Testing for COVID-19 is our window onto the pandemic and how it is spreading. Without data on who is infected by the virus, and how many people are dying from the infection, we have no way of understanding the pandemic. Without testing there is no data.",
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                    "text": "Because of this, counts of confirmed cases and deaths depend on how much a country actually tests. A country that tests very little will miss most of the cases, and may also fail to attribute to coronavirus all the deaths caused by the disease.",
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                    "text": "For this reason, since March we have focused our efforts on building a global dataset of COVID-19 testing. Over this time, this dataset has been used widely: by the UN, the OECD, the White House, by many news outlets and by epidemiologists trying to understand the pandemic and what lies ahead.",
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                    "text": "This week our testing dataset was published in ",
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                    "text": "As part of this process, we submitted a manuscript that describes the dataset and how it is compiled in detail. You can find the manuscript here:",
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                    "text": "Our latest testing data is always available at at our ",
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                    "text": "Please cite the dataset as: ",
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                            "text": "Hasell, J., Mathieu, E., Beltekian, D. et al. A cross-country database of COVID-19 testing. Sci Data 7, 345 (2020).",
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    "title": "The Our World in Data COVID-19 Testing dataset has been published in the academic journal, Nature",
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    "excerpt": "The Our World in Data dataset which has tracked COVID-19 testing across the world since the start of the pandemic has been peer-reviewed and published in the academic journal, Nature.",
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