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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 we're still seeing data lags, robinson mentioned florida. the state is about at least a week delayed in reporting data, and they're not getting consistent data. so we are -- we are really truly, i feel like we're flying a plane blind in some aspects. >> right. part of what is confounding to me, dr. patel, that's how the covid tracking project started. it started because people didn't feel like they had enough data. here we are and we're still talking about holes in data. robinson, florida's governor desantis is selling anti-fauci merchandise as covid cases soar by almost 700% in his s...
There's no disputing the numbers. let's look at january 20th inauguration day and july 4th. a little over five months. 194 194,000 cases. it's 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. >> that's right. but the question i think is how much is the president going to lean into this optimism when there are always going to be c...