We’re being flooded with charts almost daily, but do we really know what we’re looking at? Covid-19 graphs showing infection and mortality rates might not give us the whole picture without a little graph literacy. This Vox explainer breaks down all you need to know when taking a look at your next covid-19 chart, like how a rising number of cases may be more indicative of a country’s robust testing effort than at showing us the severity of an outbreak.

Read carefully: It's also worth taking note of what your x and y axes represent on any given chart — are they linear or logarithmic? What are the units? There’s a lot to learn here and definitely worth checking out before forwarding any more graphs over WhatsApp. (watch, runtime 4:57)

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