Last week, the team behind Bloomberg’s COVID-19 vaccine tracker announced that the dashboard will stop updating on October 5. Thank you to this team for your work tracking the vaccine rollout!
Read MoreIf you went to check Biobot’s COVID-19 wastewater dashboard this week, you may have noticed that the company hasn’t updated its data since September 14. The company’s lab is closed for a retreat.
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Tomorrow afternoon, patient-advocates living with Long COVID and other chronic diseases will be at the White House demanding that the federal government act urgently to address these conditions. The protest’s demands include nationwide education on ME/CFS and Long COVID, education specifically for doctors in diagnosing these conditions, funding for research and potential treatments, and economic support for patients.
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The COVID-19 Data Dispatch does not endorse the New York MTA’s newly-relaxed mask guidance on pubic transit.
Read MoreWhile COVID-19 data have become less reliable in recent months, one federal source has remained fairly consistent: the Household Pulse Survey.
Read MoreYou might have seen this statistic from President Biden or other White House officials: “COVID deaths are down nearly 90%.” The statistic is misleading and incorrect, to the point that I’d consider it misinformation—especially right now, as the U.S. faces a largely-ignored surge.
Read MoreMany of the public health failures we saw early in the COVID-19 crisis are now being repeated with monkeypox—which the WHO just declared a global health emergency.
Read MoreThe CDC is following in the footsteps of many state and local health departments across the country in taking weekends off from COVID-19 updates.
Read MoreI frequently rely on the CDC’s Weekly Review, a weekly newsletter that provides COVID-19 data updates, as a source for my own National Numbers updates. The CDC newsletter is usually posted on Friday afternoons. But this summer, the schedule has become far less regular.
Read MoreThis past Wednesday, the NIH announced that Dr. Anthony Fauci has tested positive for COVID-19. His symptoms are reportedly mild so far, but why is he still working from home?
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