It’s Elementary — More Americans Have Been Infected by the Coronavirus than Previously Thought

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In Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four, Sherlock Holmes rebukes Watson after the good doctor accuses him of engaging in mere guess-work by tersely responding: “No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty.” Holmes then patiently (and perhaps a bit condescendingly) walks Watson through…