Mend Urgent Care workers perform drive-up Covid-19 testing in Los Angeles, California, on July 31, 2020. | Kevin Winter/Getty Images

And fall is fast approaching.

Six months into America’s battle with Covid-19, we still can’t really see the enemy.

There isn’t good real-time data on where the virus is and who it is infecting. Our diagnostic testing is at an all-time high, but it’s still missing the vast majority of infections.

We don’t have systematic surveillance programs like we do for the flu to fill in the gaps, and we don’t have good metrics that tell us how well the virus is being contained. We’re particularly in the dark about what’s happening in many minority communities, which have lower testing rates than white communities.

We don’t have good foresight into the future either: As the response to the pandemic grows more