Opinion: Real-time data are essential for Covid-19. They’re just as important for the opioid overdose crisis
As the Covid-19 epidemic sweeps across the country leaving death and confusion in its wake, let’s not forget the other epidemic — opioid overdose deaths — that continues to do the same thing and that was until just a few months ago considered to be the greatest public health crisis of this generation.
I’m fascinated, and appalled, by one huge difference between them: data.
