Coronavirus makes it crucial to fill out your census form right away

The spread of the coronavirus has ravaged businesses, closed schools, and wreaked havoc upon the lives of most people in the United States. But it is presenting a unique challenge to the Census Bureau.

Census officials have spent a decade planning for the coming months. Under the best of circumstances, it was always going to be a challenge to count hundreds of millions of people and to try and figure out where they lived as of Wednesday. But the spread of the coronavirus has added a really big hurdle.