Send me your COVID-19 questions!
What are you wondering around COVID-19 in the U.S. right now? Comment here or email me and let me know!
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Answering reader questions: Encouraging policy changes
In this post, I’m answering reader questions about how individuals can impact COVID-19 policies. Such questions feel particularly pertinent this week, as leaders of several states loosen up on mask mandates and other COVID-19 safety measures.
Read MoreReader survey: What do you want to see in 2022?
In 2022, I would like to revamp readers’ options for donating in a way that aligns more closely with your interests. The survey will help me figure that out, as well as give me an overall sense of what you all would like to see from the COVID-19 Data Dispatch in 2022.
Read MoreSend me your favorite COVID-19 data stories of 2021
In late December last year, I shared a list of news stories and projects that I considered the 20 best COVID-19 data stories of 2020. This year, I’m planning to compile a similar list, and I need your help to pick these stories.
Read MoreReader question: How long will COVID-19 restrictions continue?
A couple of weeks ago, I received a reader question from a friend of mine who recently got engaged! He and his fiancée are planning a wedding in summer 2023, and he asked me: “How likely do you think it is that (1) the COVID-19 pandemic remains a serious danger to our safety in the summer of 2023 and (2) the government still has the energy to keep enforcing COVID-19 restrictions?”
Read MoreThinking about COVID-19 risk as winter approaches
I recently received a question from a COVID-19 Data Dispatch reader that followed a similar theme to many questions that readers, friends, and family members have asked me in the past few months. The question essentially outlined an event in the reader’s personal life that they’d been invited to attend, and asked for my advice: should they go? How risky was this event?
Read MoreSend me your holiday COVID-19 questions
This year, the risk of spreading COVID-19 at a holiday gathering is still present—but for many gatherings, it’s much more manageable thanks to vaccines. Still, there’s a lot of potential uncertainty involved in planning gatherings this winter
Read More12 Long COVID stats that demonstrate the importance of vaccination
Though it’s now been well over a year since the first Long COVID patients were infected, there is still so much we don’t know about the condition. For example, we don’t know a very rudimentary number: how many people in the U.S. are struggling with Long COVID. We also don’t have a clear, detailed picture of Long COVID symptoms, or how these symptoms arise from a coronavirus infection, or how they impact the daily lives of Long COVID patients.
Read MoreAnswering your COVID-19 questions
This week, I’m answering readers’ COVID-19 questions. Including: Should I get a booster shot? Why don’t people get vaccinated? When will this end?!
Read MoreSurvey: Looking forward to 2022
I recently wrapped up a big project over here at the COVID-19 Data Dispatch. Now that it’s done, I’ve been doing a bit of reflecting on the next steps for this publication—specifically, what I’d like it to look like one year from now.
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