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NEW YORK — For two years, coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations have been widely used barometers of the pandemic’s march across the world. But the omicron wave is making a mess of the usual statistics, forcing news organizations to rethink the way they report such figures. “It’s just a data

For two years, the number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations has been widely used as a barometer of the spread of the global epidemic.

For two years, coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations have been widely used barometers of the pandemic's march across the world.

Hospitalization and death rates are considered by some to be a more reliable picture of COVID-19's current impact on society. Yet even the usefulness of those numbers has been called into question in recent days.

NEW YORK (AP) — For two years, coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations have been widely used barometers of the pandemic’s march across the world.

NEW YORK (AP) — For two years, coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations have been widely used barometers of the pandemics march across the world.