1.The SAS Files COVIDCases1 and COVIDCases2 have COVID test results for March-June 2020 by FIPS County Code, with results from March and April in one file and May and June in the other.The files contain the reporting date, the number of cases, the number of deaths andthe number of hospitalizations. The SAS dataset FIPS contains FIPS county codes, locality name and health district.

1.Explore the datasets using PROC CONTENTS and PROC PRINT with OBS=10.

2.Sort the COVID1 and COVID2 datasets by FIPS and output the sorted data to COVIDCases1 and COVIDCases2.

3.Create a new dataset, COVID, by interleaving the two datasets by FIPS Code.

a.Remove records where the number of cases is missing.