Screaming into the Void: A Conversation with COVID-19 Data Analyst Sara Anne Willette
On fatalism, death, and the pandemic's culture of silence
Sara Anne Willette has been tracking Iowa’s COVID-19 cases since March. Willette has common variable immunodeficiency, an antibody deficiency that makes it so her body can’t protect her from disease, so to her, data on COVID-19 is life and death. As the state’s data shifted and the governor’s office refused to p…