Sources and updates, November 6
Sources and updates for the week of November 6 include Omicron bivalent boosters, a Long COVID clinical trial, an RSV vaccine, and more.
Read MoreLong COVID patients, I want to hear from you for a new reporting project
This week, MuckRock (the public records and investigative nonprofit where I work part-time) launched a new project looking at the U.S. government’s response to the Long COVID crisis. We’d like to hear from Long COVID patients and community members who have story ideas.
Read MoreHow testing international travelers helps the CDC keep tabs on new variants
Last month, the CDC started publishing data from a surveillance program focused on international travelers coming into the U.S. I talked to bioinformatics experts involved with the program to learn more about how it works.
Read MoreNational numbers, November 6
Continuing a trend from the last few weeks, nationwide COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are still at plateaus or trending very slightly downward. We aren’t clearly in a fall surge yet, but concerning newer Omicron subvariants are rising—along with other respiratory diseases.
Read MoreCOVID source callout: CDC archives public datasets
The CDC is now updating its COVID-19 cases and deaths data weekly, instead of daily. This shift goes beyond the agency’s public dashboard: the CDC has also archived datasets with state- and county-level data providing COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Read MoreSources and updates, October 30
Sources and updates for the week of October 30 include booster shot demographics, mortality data by occupation, Paxlovid prescriptions, and more.
Read MoreThe U.S.’s flu and RSV surveillance is insufficient for tracking this fall’s outbreaks
I recently received a question from a reader, asking how to follow both COVID-19 and the flu in the county where she lives. For COVID-19, county-level data sources aren’t too hard to find; for the flu, this is much harder.
Read MoreNational numbers, October 30
The national COVID-19 picture continues to be somewhat murky, thanks in part to poor-quality data. Both nationwide cases and new hospital admissions trended slightly upward in the last week (by 2% and 1%, respectively); this could reflect the beginnings of fall surges in some places, but it’s hard to say for sure.
Read MoreCOVID source shout-out: Science Writers organizers
I’ve been to a few journalism conferences in 2022, along with other larger events, and Science Writers has the best COVID-19 safety protocols I have encountered so far. Shout-out to the organizers!
Read MoreSources and updates, October 23
Sources and updates for the week of October 23 include flu vaccination disparities, genomic surveillance from travelers, hospital finances, and more.
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