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b'One big lesson from the COVID pandemic: you need solid data to mount an effective response. And that was one of the CDC\\u2019s biggest challenges in the early days of COVID-19. Things we know now \\u2013 like the fact that minority communities were disproportionally impacted \\u2013 were tough to nail down at the time. That\\u2019s because CDC had pretty limited demographic and socioeconomic data on the virus\\u2019s impacts. The Health and Human Services Inspector General found the CDC did manage to fill in some those data gaps over time, and some of what it did could help inform future public health responses. Adam Freeman is a deputy inspector general in the OIG\\u2019s Office of Evaluation and Inspections. He talked with Federal News Network\\u2019s Deputy Editor Jared Serbu. \\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'