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The COVID-19 pandemic has been plagued by a lack of data on the number of cases reported in the U.S., Italy and South Korea. This article is a guide to understanding and interpreting the various forms of data being reported on the pandemic. We are all desperately hoping to see signs that the outbreak might be improving. We need to look for trends and patterns in the data to see when the outbreak has been contained. The limited bandwidth for testing skews the reported daily numbers in a few ways to understand the data.