Data Lags News Today

Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Michael Patra today said that formulating monetary policy is a challenging task in a volatile environment like the current one, given lagged data inputs, which are also frequently reviewed.

And then were still seeing data lags, robinson mentioned florida. the state is about at least a week delayed in reporting data, and theyre not getting consistent data. so we are -- we are really truly, i feel like were flying a plane blind in some aspects. >> right. part of what is confounding to me, dr. patel, thats how the covid tracking project started. it started because people didnt feel like they had enough data. here we are and were still talking about holes in data. robinson, floridas go...

Theres no disputing the numbers. lets look at january 20th inauguration day and july 4th. a little over five months. 194 194,000 cases. its now 13,000 and change. even the president noting there are pockets in the country where the data lags. the question is most of the areas tend to be red states. most of the areas, not all, tend to be more conservative. where a democratic president named joe biden is not going to be followed. he says get your vaccine. >> thats right. but the question i think i...