Posts
Air quality
- Fenceline communities left behind by data gaps: A dispatch from SEJ in Houston
- COVID source shout-out: Safety protocols at Davos
- Collecting imperfect environmental data with a CO2 monitor
- How COVID-19 Data Dispatch readers use CO2 monitors
- Q&A: Libraries lend out CO2 monitors to make public health data more accessible
Contact tracing
- I am once again asking: why are journalists doing this?
- Contact tracing: Too little, too late, no public data
- We need better contact tracing data
- Was the Capitol invasion a superspreader event?
- Where are we most likely to catch COVID-19?
- Evaluating exposure notification apps: Expanded methodology behind the story
- Video: The future of exposure notifications
- A dispatch from Provincetown, Mass.
- Sources and updates, December 5
- Sources and updates, July 17
Data workshops
Featured sources
- Featured sources, July 26
- Featured Sources, Aug. 2
- Featured sources, Aug. 16
- Featured sources, Aug. 23
- Featured sources, Aug. 30
- Featured sources, Sept. 6
- Featured sources, Sept. 13
- Featured sources, Sept. 20
- Featured sources, Oct. 4
- Featured sources, Oct. 11
- Featured sources, Oct. 18
- Featured sources, Oct. 25
- Sources and updates, Nov. 1
- Featured source, Nov. 8
- Featured sources, Nov. 15
- Featured sources, Nov. 22
- Featured sources, Nov. 29
- Featured sources, Dec. 6
- Featured sources, Dec. 13
- Featured sources, Dec. 20
- Your guide to choosing a COVID-19 data source
- Featured sources, Jan. 10
- Featured sources, Jan. 24
- Featured sources, Jan. 31
- Featured sources, Feb. 14
- Featured sources, Feb. 21
- Featured sources and federal data updates, Feb. 28
- Global.health has gone public—what’s actually in the database?
- Featured sources, March 7
- Featured sources, March 14
- Featured sources, March 21
- Featured sources, March 28
- Featured sources, April 4
- Featured sources, April 11
- Featured sources, April 18
- Featured sources, April 25
- Featured sources, May 2
- Featured sources, May 9
- Source updates, May 16
- Featured sources, May 23
- Featured sources, May 30
- Featured sources, June 6
- Featured sources, June 13
- Featured sources, June 20
- Featured sources, June 27
- Featured sources, July 4
- Featured sources, July 11
- Featured sources, July 18
- Featured sources, July 25
- Featured sources, August 1
- Featured sources, August 8
- Featured sources, August 15
- Featured sources, August 22
- Featured sources, August 29
- Sources and updates, September 5
- Featured sources, September 12
- Featured sources, September 19
- Featured sources, September 26
- Featured sources, October 3
- Featured sources, October 10
- Sources and updates, October 17
- Featured sources, October 24
- Sources and updates, October 31
- Featured sources, November 7
- Sources and updates, November 14
- Sources and updates, November 21
- Sources and updates, November 28
- Sources and updates, December 12
- Featured sources, December 19
- Featured sources, December 26
- Featured sources, January 9
- A new resource for journalists covering Long COVID
- Featured sources, January 16
- Featured sources, January 23
- Featured sources, January 30
- Sources and updates, February 13
- Featured sources, February 20
- Featured sources, February 27
- Sources and updates, March 6
- Sources and updates, March 13
- Sources and updates, March 27
- Sources and updates, April 10
- Sources and updates, April 17
- Sources and updates, April 24
- Tips and source recommendations from my AHCJ panel
- Sources and updates, May 1
- Sources and updates, May 8
- Sources and updates, May 15
- Sources and updates, May 22
- Sources and updates, May 29
- Sources and updates, June 5
- Sources and updates, June 12
- Sources and updates, June 19
- Sources and updates, June 26
- Sources and updates, July 3
- Sources and updates, July 10
- Sources and updates, July 17
- Sources and updates, July 24
- Sources and updates, July 31
- Sources and updates, September 4
- Sources and updates, September 11
- Sources and updates, September 18
- Sources and updates, September 25
- Sources and updates, October 2
- Sources and updates, October 16
- Sources and updates, November 13
- Sources and updates, December 4
- Sources and updates, December 18
- Sources and updates, January 8
- Sources and updates, January 22
- Sources and updates, January 29
- Sources and updates, February 5
- Sources and updates, February 12
- Sources and updates, February 19
- Sources and updates, February 26
- Sources and updates, March 26
Federal data
- Hospital capacity dataset gets a makeover
- “Is Dr. Anthony Fauci on Cameo?”
- No, we’re not done talking about HHS hospitalization data
- County-level testing data from an unexpected source
- County-level test data gets an update
- Issue #10: reflecting and looking forward
- Another update to county-level testing data
- CMS data and reporting updates
- CDC’s failure to resist political takeover
- Federal data source updates, Nov. 8
- Visualizing COVID-19
- What a President Biden could mean for COVID-19 data
- HHS releases data on new admissions, staffing shortages
- Federal data updates, Nov. 22
- HHS’s hospitalization data are good, actually
- COVID-19 data for your local hospital
- Federal data updates, Dec. 13
- Featured sources, Dec. 13
- HHS releases long-awaited national profile reports
- Facility-level hospitalization data updated on schedule
- CDC now reporting a vaccination count (and other updates)
- Can Biden clean up America’s COVID-19 data?
- The federal government starts acting like a federal government
- Federal data updates, Feb. 7
- Diving into COVID-19 data #2: Workshop recap
- New, more local data from the CDC
- Hey CDC, when dashboard?
- CDC says 80% of teachers and childcare workers are vaccinated, fails to provide more specifics
- Five more things, May 9
- Source updates, May 16
- A new tracker highlights the racial disparities—and the missing data—in America’s COVID-19 outbreaks
- Lessons for COVID-19 from the HIV/AIDS pandemic
- Yes, we still need better data on COVID-19 and race: An interview with Dr. Debra Furr-Holden
- Three more COVID-19 data points, August 15
- U.S. moves to approve booster shots despite minimal evidence
- Biden’s new COVID-19 plan excludes data
- The data problem underlying booster shot confusion
- 12 Long COVID stats that demonstrate the importance of vaccination
- Booster shots: What we’ve learned—and what we still don’t know
- Boosters for all adults: Why eligibility expanded, and what it means for you
- Cases are rising on Thanksgiving again, but we’re better protected this year
- Vaccines aren’t enough: What Biden can do about Omicron
- New CDC mortality data: “Real-time public health surveillance at a highly granular level”
- Six more things, January 9
- COVID source callout: COVID-19 deaths in U.S. hospitals
- CovidTests.gov early rollout raises equity concerns; where’s the data?
- Three more things, January 30
- The CDC is finally publishing wastewater data—but only ten states are well-represented
- Answering reader questions: Encouraging policy changes
- Five more things, February 20
- Why the CDC changed its masking guidance, and which metrics to follow right now
- Five more things, February 27
- Pandemic preparedness: Improving our data surveillance and communication
- All the U.S.’s COVID-19 metrics are flawed
- New CDC mortality data release from the Documenting COVID-19 project
- The CDC’s isolation guidance is not based on data
- CDC launches new pandemic forecasting center
- Tips and source recommendations from my AHCJ panel
- Seroprevalence, incomplete data in the wake of the Omicron wave
- The “one million deaths” milestone fails to capture the pandemic’s true toll
- Five reasons why Long COVID research in the U.S. is so difficult
- More transparency needed on CDC wastewater data
- Interpreting limited data in our undercounted surge
- Wastewater data gap follow-up: an update from Biobot
- We need more data on who’s getting Paxlovid
- Unpacking U.S. data gaps and lack of public health action with Jason Salemi
- Nine areas of data we need to manage the pandemic
- CDC stops sharing cruise ship COVID-19 data
- Tips for interpreting COVID-19 data while the CDD goes on hiatus
- Potential data fragmentation when the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ends
- 12 statistics showing the pandemic isn’t over
- Orders of free at-home COVID-19 tests varied widely by state
- COVID source callout: CDC shifts to weekly updates
- Interpreting COVID-19 data as the CDC goes weekly and a fall surge approaches
- The U.S.’s flu and RSV surveillance is insufficient for tracking this fall’s outbreaks
- COVID source callout: CDC archives public datasets
- How official death data underestimate COVID-19’s inequities
- Looking ahead to the big COVID-19 stories of 2023
- New wastewater surveillance report highlights need for expansion, standardization
- What the public health emergency’s end means for COVID-19 data
- This winter’s COVID-19 surge wasn’t “mild”
- National numbers, February 26
- COVID-19 is inspiring improvements to surveillance for other common viruses
- COVID source callout: CDC ends its data newsletter
- COVID-19 dashboards that haven’t shut down yet
Higher education
Hospitalization
- Hospital capacity dataset gets a makeover
- No, we’re not done talking about HHS hospitalization data
- HHS hospitalization data: still questionable
- HHS hospitalization data: more questions arise
- No, hospitalization data isn’t switching back to the CDC
- New reporting requirements for nursing homes, hospitals, labs
- CDC’s failure to resist political takeover
- HHS changes may drive hospitalization reporting challenges
- HHS releases data on new admissions, staffing shortages
- HHS’s hospitalization data are good, actually
- COVID-19 data for your local hospital
- Facility-level hospitalization data updated on schedule
- Featured sources, Jan. 10
- HHS makes it easier to compare hospitalizations by age
- Five more things, May 9
- Three more COVID-19 data points, August 15
- One data researcher’s journey through South Carolina’s COVID-19 reporting
- Sources and updates, October 17
- Malnutrition, other gastrointestinal issues are common in Long COVID
- Hospitalization data lag behind the actual crisis
- Sources and updates, February 13
- Why the CDC changed its masking guidance, and which metrics to follow right now
- Idaho’s hospitals as a case study of decentralized healthcare
- Potential data fragmentation when the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ends
- National numbers, December 11
- National numbers, March 19
International data
- Trust is key for a successful COVID-19 response
- In India’s COVID-19 catastrophe, figures are only part of the story
- The 2021 Tokyo Olympics begin on July 23. Will Japan be ready?
- How violence in Israel and Palestine is impacting COVID-19 rates
- 25 million doses is a drop in the global vaccination bucket
- Peru audits deaths data, shows the value of excess deaths
- Will the Tokyo Olympics be a superspreading event?
- The Delta variant is taking over the world
- The booster shot conversation: What you should know
- The case for a moratorium on booster shots
- Unreliable population numbers hinder vaccination rate analysis
- Booster shots exacerbate global vaccine inequity
- Unpacking Delta AY.4.2: Are we prepared for the next variant?
- First COVID-19 antiviral pill gains authorization
- Omicron variant: What we know, what we don’t, and why not to panic (yet)
- We failed to vaccinate the world in 2021; will 2022 be more successful?
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has COVID-19 impacts
- How testing international travelers helps the CDC keep tabs on new variants
- Data implications of China ending its zero-COVID policies
- China’s not the only country with unreliable COVID-19 data
K-12 schools
- Data on schools reopening lag the actual reopening of schools
- COVID-19 K-12 data continue to be patchwork
- School data update, Sept. 6
- New York’s school COVID-19 dashboard looks incredible… but where is it?
- School data update, Sept. 20
- School data with denominators
- Featured sources, Nov. 15
- COVID-19 school data remain sporadic
- Featured sources, Nov. 29
- How are states reporting COVID-19 in schools?
- Schools go on winter break but discourse continues
- School data update, Jan. 3
- Schools are reopening (again), but we still can’t track them
- Experts say schools could reopen, but data are still scarce
- Federal data updates, Feb. 7
- New schools guidance fails to call for data reporting
- COVID source callout: Iowa
- Featured sources and federal data updates, Feb. 28
- Teachers can get vaccinated in every state, but we don’t know how many are
- K-12 school updates, March 21
- Featured sources, March 28
- CDC says 80% of teachers and childcare workers are vaccinated, fails to provide more specifics
- State K-12 school data still leave much to be desired
- Fall school reopening plans demonstrate continued data gap
- CDC says schools should reopen, but will data improve?
- Opening: Five school districts that kept their communities safe
- Featured sources, August 8
- COVID source shout-out: Hawaii schools reporting
- Opening profile: Public health collaboration in Austin, Indiana
- Featured sources, August 15
- Opening profile: Community over wifi in Garrett County, Maryland
- Featured sources, August 22
- Opening profile: Personal responsibility in Andrews, Texas
- Learn more about the Opening series via a live Q&A with Betsy
- Featured sources, August 29
- Opening profile: Close-knit community in Port Orford and Langlois, Oregon
- Opening profile: Going above and beyond in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
- Fall 2021 school reopening: Stats so far
- Featured sources, September 12
- Opening project conclusion: 11 lessons from the schools that safely reopened
- COVID source shout-out: Teen vaccinations in Maine
- Featured sources, September 26
- COVID source shout-out: K-12 data in Utah
- Featured sources, October 3
- The challenges of routine COVID-19 testing in schools
- Sources and updates, October 31
- Featured sources, November 7
- As Omicron hits schools, K-12 data void is wider than ever
- Sources and updates, February 6
- Sources and updates, March 6
- Why Utah’s innovative school COVID-19 testing program failed
- Sources and updates, March 13
- COVID-19 in schools data: still bad!
- Sources and updates, June 12
- Sources and updates, September 11
- Callout: No, NYC, those schools aren’t in Colombia
- Wastewater surveillance can get more specific than entire sewersheds
- Sources and updates, March 12
Long COVID
- 12 Long COVID stats that demonstrate the importance of vaccination
- Malnutrition, other gastrointestinal issues are common in Long COVID
- A new resource for journalists covering Long COVID
- Three more things, January 30
- Sources and updates, February 13
- Sources and updates, March 6
- All the U.S.’s COVID-19 metrics are flawed
- Sources and updates, April 10
- Sources and updates, April 24
- COVID source shout-out: U.K. Long COVID estimates
- Five reasons why Long COVID research in the U.S. is so difficult
- Research opportunity for Long COVID and ME/CFS
- New Long COVID studies demonstrate danger of breakthrough cases
- Star Trek predicted post-viral illness, but provided few tools to stop its spread
- Staggering new Long COVID research, and a correction
- Two major Long COVID reports are coming in August
- Sources and updates, September 4
- Sources and updates, September 11
- Sources and updates, September 18
- COVID source shout-out: Millions Missing protest
- 12 statistics showing the pandemic isn’t over
- Sources and updates, September 25
- Sources and updates, October 9
- Sources and updates, October 16
- Long COVID patients, I want to hear from you for a new reporting project
- How data gaps contribute to financial challenges for people with Long COVID
- Long COVID book recommendations
- Sources and updates, November 27
- The future of tracking Long COVID
- New CDC report vastly underestimates deaths with Long COVID
- Looking ahead to the big COVID-19 stories of 2023
- Sources and updates, January 15
- How researchers track Long COVID’s impacts
- My tips for covering Long COVID (using data, records, and patient interviews)
- Sources and updates, March 5
- Remission Biome could represent a new paradigm in patient-led research
- Sources and updates, March 12
- Pushing back against Long COVID misinformation
Miscellaneous
- My insights on COVID-19 data reporting
- How to understand COVID-19 numbers
- Entrepreneurial training for the COVID-19 Data Dispatch
- What I learned from my Science Writers session
- Racism is a public health threat
- Meet your new intern
- Some personal news
- The CDD was profiled by a Greek media lab
- Farewell from the CDD’s valiant intern
- One year of the CDD: My favorite posts
- When will the pandemic end? 26 science writers and communicators respond
- How I stayed safe on a recent trip to California
- Betsy news: I’m joining Documenting COVID-19
- The COVID-19 Data Dispatch at NICAR 2022
- Combatting pandemic fatigue with solidarity
- Tips for safe plane travel during the BA.5 surge
- Donate to the COVID-19 Data Dispatch!
- COVID-related nonprofits taking donations this holiday season
- New opportunity for science-curious journalists
National numbers
- National numbers, Nov. 8
- National numbers, Nov. 15
- A new metric for conceptualizing cases
- National numbers, Nov. 22
- National numbers, Nov. 29
- National numbers, Dec. 6
- National numbers, Dec. 13
- National numbers, Dec. 20
- National numbers, Dec. 27
- National numbers, Jan. 3
- National numbers, Jan. 10
- National numbers, Jan. 17
- National numbers, Jan. 24
- National numbers, Jan. 31
- National numbers, Feb. 7
- National numbers, Feb. 14
- National numbers, Feb. 21
- National numbers, Feb. 28
- National numbers, March 7
- National Numbers, March 14
- National Numbers, March 21
- National Numbers, March 28
- National numbers, April 4
- National numbers, April 11
- National numbers, April 18
- National numbers, April 25
- National numbers, May 2
- National numbers, May 9
- National numbers, May 16
- National numbers, May 23
- National numbers, May 30
- National numbers, June 6
- National numbers, June 13
- National numbers, June 20
- National numbers, June 27
- National numbers, July 4
- National numbers, July 11
- National numbers, July 18
- National numbers, August 1
- National numbers, August 8
- National numbers, August 15
- National numbers, August 22
- National numbers, August 29
- National numbers, September 5
- National numbers, September 12
- National numbers, September 19
- National numbers, September 26
- National numbers, October 3
- National numbers, October 10
- National numbers, October 17
- National numbers, October 24
- National numbers, October 31
- National numbers, November 7
- National numbers, November 14
- National numbers, November 21
- National numbers, November 28
- National numbers, December 5
- National numbers, December 12
- National numbers, December 19
- National numbers, December 26
- National numbers, January 2
- National numbers, January 9
- National numbers, January 16
- National numbers, January 23
- National numbers, January 30
- National numbers, February 6
- National numbers, February 13
- National numbers, February 20
- National numbers, February 27
- National numbers, March 6
- National numbers, March 13
- National numbers, March 20
- National numbers, March 27
- National numbers, April 3
- National numbers, April 10
- National numbers, April 17
- National numbers, April 24
- National numbers, May 1
- National numbers, May 8
- National numbers, May 15
- National numbers, May 22
- National numbers, May 29
- National numbers, June 5
- National numbers, June 12
- National numbers, June 19
- National numbers, June 26
- National numbers, July 3
- National numbers, July 10
- National numbers, July 17
- National numbers, July 24
- National numbers, July 31
- National numbers, September 4
- National numbers, September 11
- National numbers, September 18
- National numbers, September 25
- National numbers, October 2
- National numbers, October 9
- National numbers, October 23
- National numbers, October 30
- National numbers, November 13
- National numbers, November 20
- National numbers, November 27
- National numbers, December 4
- National numbers, December 11
- National numbers, December 18
- National numbers, January 15
- National numbers, January 22
- National numbers, January 29
- National numbers, February 5
- National numbers, February 12
- National numbers, February 19
- National numbers, February 26
- National numbers, March 5
- National numbers, March 12
- National numbers, March 19
- National numbers, March 26
Reader feedback
- How many COVID-19 cases are actively circulating in your community?
- Answering readers’ COVID-19 questions
- Our favorite COVID-19 sources
- Gaps we see in COVID-19 data
- One year of the CDD: Reader reflections
- Survey: Looking forward to 2022
- Send me your favorite COVID-19 data stories of 2021
- Reader survey: What do you want to see in 2022?
- Answering reader questions: Encouraging policy changes
- Interpreting limited data in our undercounted surge
- CDD is almost at 100 issues: Share your favorite posts
- Reflecting on 100 issues of COVID-19 data reporting
- Reflections and format shifts following the CDD’s first hiatus
- Donate to the COVID-19 Data Dispatch!
- Answering reader questions about data interpretation, good masking
- How COVID-19 Data Dispatch readers use CO2 monitors
Source spotlight
- COVID source callout: West Virginia
- COVID Source Callout: Florida
- Source callout: New Mexico
- COVID source callout: New Jersey
- COVID source callout: South Carolina
- COVID source callout: Texas
- COVID source callout: Utah
- COVID source callout: Maine
- COVID source shout-out: Glastonbury, CT
- COVID source callout: Iowa
- COVID source callout: Missouri
- Our favorite COVID-19 sources
- COVID source shout-out: The CDC
- COVID source callout: Wyoming
- COVID source shout-out: FDA’s techies
- COVID source shout-out: Dr. Fauci
- COVID source shout-out: Kentucky
- COVID source shout-out: A new national team
- COVID source shout-out: COVID Tracking Project
- COVID source callout: Andrew Cuomo
- COVID source callout: Iowa
- COVID source shout-out: Oklahoma
- COVID source callout: Age brackets
- COVID source callout: CDC race/ethnicity data
- COVID source shout-out: Hawaii
- COVID Source callout: Federal Bureau of Prisons
- COVID source shout-out: New York expands eligibility
- COVID source shout-out: I’ve never wanted to be an “NIH-er” this bad
- COVID source shout-out: NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
- COVID source shout-out: CDC’s vaccine blue
- COVID source shoutout: Unique vaccine metrics
- COVID source shout-out: TUSHY
- COVID source shout-out: Goodnight Turbovax
- COVID source callout: CDC’s vaccinations by age data
- COVID source shout-out: Babydog
- COVID source callout: Florida’s schedule change
- COVID source shout-out: The CDD vaccinations page
- COVID source call-out: CDC’s county vaccination map
- COVID source callout: Community Profile Report updates
- COVID source callout: Vaccine incentives
- COVID source shout-out: Transparency in Utah
- COVID source callout: States go dark on prison case numbers
- COVID source shout-out: Hawaii schools reporting
- Source shout-out: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- One data researcher’s journey through South Carolina’s COVID-19 reporting
- COVID source shout-out: FERN’s mapping project shuts down
- COVID source shout-out: Teen vaccinations in Maine
- COVID source shout-out: K-12 data in Utah
- COVID source callout: Nebraska’s weekly updates
- Nebraska’s dashboard is back… Or is it?
- COVID source callout: Booster shot trends
- COVID source callout: Vaccination rates by Zodiac sign
- COVID source callout: Illinois, where’s your vaccination data?
- (COVID) source shout-out: Data Is Plural
- COVID source callout: CDC’s breakthrough case data
- COVID source shout-out: Community Profile Reports
- COVID source shout-out: Collecting Omicron data
- COVID source callout: The CDC’s slow variant updates
- COVID source shout-out: The CDD book
- COVID source callout: JHU positivity rates
- COVID source callout: COVID-19 deaths in U.S. hospitals
- COVID source callout: Underreported cases in prisons
- COVID source callout: CDC’s weekly data review emails
- COVID source callout: Iowa ends COVID-19 dashboards
- Shout-out: Provincetown’s COVID-19 policies
- COVID source shout-out: Hawaii
- COVID source callout: Kentucky
- COVID source callout: Still no state-by-state data on vaccinations by race/ethnicity
- COVID source shout-out: Cyrus Shahpar
- COVID source callout: Florida, again
- COVID source shout-out: CDC wastewater dashboard upgrades
- COVID source shout-out: SCAN’s wastewater dashboard
- COVID source shout-out: U.K. Long COVID estimates
- COVID source callout: “No recent data” at hundreds of sewershed sites
- COVID source shout-out: The Yankee Candle Index
- COVID source callout: CDC Community Levels
- COVID source shout-out: the gasoline index?
- COVID source callout: The Morning
- COVID source callout: Dr. Fauci, please take a week off
- COVID source callout: CDC Weekly Review
- COVID source callout: CDC takes weekends off
- COVID source callout: Failures in the U.S. monkeypox response
- COVID source callout: Misinformation from the White House
- COVID source shout-out: Household Pulse Survey
- COVID source callout: Masks on public transportation
- COVID source shout-out: Millions Missing protest
- COVID source callout: Wastewater data on a break
- COVID source shout-out: Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker
- COVID source callout: CDC shifts to weekly updates
- COVID source callout: Do not follow this Twitter sensationalist
- COVID source shout-out: Science Writers organizers
- COVID source callout: CDC archives public datasets
- COVID source shout-out: New York wastewater dashboard
- How Science Writers organizers planned the in-person conference’s COVID-19 safety measures
- COVID source shout-out: HealthWeather dashboard
- COVID source shout-out: New NIH tool to report at-home test results
- COVID source shout-out: Variant data from wastewater
- Callout: No, NYC, those schools aren’t in Colombia
- COVID source shout-out: Illinois’ new wastewater dashboard
- COVID source shout-out: Safety protocols at Davos
- COVID source shout-out: More wastewater dashboards
- Two major COVID-19 trackers stop data collection
- COVID source shout-out: Biobot continues its contract with the CDC
- COVID source shout-out: Mandate Masks NY
- COVID source callout: What, exactly, are the Bachelor’s COVID-19 safety protocols?
- COVID source shout-out: Remembering the COVID Tracking Project
- COVID source shout-out: A win for CDC FOIAs
- COVID source callout: CDC ends its data newsletter
- COVID source shout-out: WastewaterSCAN’s newsletter
State data
- Public health experts call for COVID-19 data standardization
- States are auditing their COVID-19 data
- Delaware leads the charge on data integrity
- What’s up with testing in Texas?
- Help advocate for better COVID-19 demographic data
- Three different units for COVID-19 tests
- Florida is no longer sending tests to Quest Diagnostics
- School data update, Sept. 20
- New, shareable graphics from the COVID Racial Data Tracker
- It is, once again, time to talk about antigen testing
- HHS changes may drive hospitalization reporting challenges
- Federal data updates, Nov. 22
- How are states reporting COVID-19 in schools?
- COVID source callout: Wyoming
- Florida data scientist faces police break-in
- 15 states are reporting COVID-19 vaccination data—federal government lags behind
- CDC now reporting a vaccination count (and other updates)
- School data update, Jan. 3
- Vaccine confusion abounds—and this is the easy stage
- We’re not doing enough sequencing to detect B.1.1.7
- Schools are reopening (again), but we still can’t track them
- Only 19 states report vaccinations by race/ethnicity
- Vaccination is a logistics problem
- COVID-19 data whistleblower Rebekah Jones gets arrested, tests positive
- New schools guidance fails to call for data reporting
- Diving into COVID-19 data #1: Workshop recap
- Diving into COVID-19 data #2: Workshop recap
- Goodnight, COVID Tracking Project
- New study reveals disparities in COVID-19 mortality by sex and race
- State K-12 school data still leave much to be desired
- COVID source shoutout: Unique vaccine metrics
- COVID source callout: Florida’s schedule change
- Evaluating exposure notification apps: Expanded methodology behind the story
- States scale down COVID-19 reporting frequency
- Breakthrough cases: What we know right now
- CDC says schools should reopen, but will data improve?
- What’s up with Texas’ county-level vaccination data?
- Opening: Five school districts that kept their communities safe
- COVID source shout-out: Hawaii schools reporting
- One data researcher’s journey through South Carolina’s COVID-19 reporting
- Sources and updates, September 5
- Featured sources, October 3
- COVID source callout: Nebraska’s weekly updates
- Nebraska’s dashboard is back… Or is it?
- Booster shot data slowly makes it onto state dashboards, but demographic information is lacking
- Cash incentives for vaccination have little impact
- COVID source callout: Iowa ends COVID-19 dashboards
- States treating COVID-19 as “endemic” is leading to shifts in data collection and reporting
- Contracted staffing issues in Missouri reveal broader crisis in hospitals
- Idaho’s hospitals as a case study of decentralized healthcare
- Fenceline communities left behind by data gaps: A dispatch from SEJ in Houston
- How one wastewater plant became a leading COVID-19 forecasting source
- Introducing a new resource page on wastewater data
- Tips for interpreting COVID-19 data while the CDD goes on hiatus
- Where to find wastewater data for your community
- COVID-19 is inspiring improvements to surveillance for other common viruses
- Sources and updates, March 26
Testing
- Antigen tests: fast, cheap, and almost diagnostic
- What’s up with testing in Texas?
- Three different units for COVID-19 tests
- Florida is no longer sending tests to Quest Diagnostics
- County-level testing data from an unexpected source
- County-level test data gets an update
- Another update to county-level testing data
- Where are the rapid testing data?
- CMS data and reporting updates
- How did the Bachelorette test contestants?
- It is, once again, time to talk about antigen testing
- Federal data source updates, Nov. 8
- HHS releases long-awaited national profile reports
- We’re not doing enough sequencing to detect B.1.1.7
- NYC variant looks like bad news
- The short-term future of COVID-19 testing
- Fall school reopening plans demonstrate continued data gap
- How I stayed safe on a recent trip to California
- The challenges of routine COVID-19 testing in schools
- Featured sources, November 7
- Vaccines aren’t enough: What Biden can do about Omicron
- FAQ: Testing and isolation in the time of Omicron
- COVID source callout: JHU positivity rates
- CovidTests.gov early rollout raises equity concerns; where’s the data?
- FAQ: A refresher on test positivity rates
- Three more things, January 30
- States treating COVID-19 as “endemic” is leading to shifts in data collection and reporting
- Five more things, February 27
- Why Utah’s innovative school COVID-19 testing program failed
- The CDC’s isolation guidance is not based on data
- Seroprevalence, incomplete data in the wake of the Omicron wave
- As Omicron keeps mutating, variant surveillance remains important
- Sources and updates, June 19
- Nine areas of data we need to manage the pandemic
- FAQ: PCR testing is still important, but it’s become harder to access
- Sources and updates, July 17
- Sources and updates, September 25
- Orders of free at-home COVID-19 tests varied widely by state
- Several respiratory viruses might spread widely this fall; here’s how we should track them
- Sources and updates, October 16
- The U.S.’s flu and RSV surveillance is insufficient for tracking this fall’s outbreaks
- COVID source shout-out: New NIH tool to report at-home test results
- Answering reader questions about data interpretation, good masking
- XBB.1.5 FAQ: What you should know about the latest Omicron subvariant
- Sources and updates, January 8
- China’s not the only country with unreliable COVID-19 data
- Sources and updates, January 22
- Sources and updates, February 19
- Sources and updates, March 5
- National numbers, March 12
- At-home tests, wastewater: COVID-19 testing after the public health emergency ends
Uncategorized
- National numbers, June 19
- Reflecting on 100 issues of COVID-19 data reporting
- National numbers, June 26
- Sources and updates, June 26
- Sources and updates, July 3
- National numbers, July 24
- Sources and updates, July 24
- National numbers, September 4
- Reflections and format shifts following the CDD’s first hiatus
- National numbers, September 11
- National numbers, October 9
- Sources and updates, January 29
- National numbers, February 19
- Sources and updates, March 19
Vaccines
- The vaccines are coming
- How to think about vaccine results
- Federal data updates, Nov. 22
- Who should get the first vaccine doses?
- Thinking about vaccine results (AstraZeneca redux)
- Vaccine news: data and concerns on early distribution
- Vaccines are shipping out, but is the U.S. ready to track them?
- 15 states are reporting COVID-19 vaccination data—federal government lags behind
- CDC now reporting a vaccination count (and other updates)
- Vaccination data update, Jan. 3
- Vaccine confusion abounds—and this is the easy stage
- Only 19 states report vaccinations by race/ethnicity
- Vaccination is a logistics problem
- Featured sources, Jan. 24
- Vaccinations so far are perpetuating existing inequity
- Access barriers lead to vaccination disparity in NYC
- The volunteers working to make NYC vaccinations more accessible
- Some optimistic vaccine news but variants still pose a major threat
- Federal data updates, Feb. 7
- Next in vaccination data demands: More hyperlocal data
- How to talk about COVID-19 vaccines
- Diving into COVID-19 data #1: Workshop recap
- Next in vaccination data demands: some, oh god, just any occupational data
- J&J vaccine authorized, VRBPAC has fantastic hold music
- National Numbers, March 14
- Teachers can get vaccinated in every state, but we don’t know how many are
- Novavax releases optimistic trial results
- What the hell is going on with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine?
- Stop me if you’ve heard this one: AstraZeneca is having vaccine issues
- When the data journalist becomes a data point
- Pfizer for the whole pfamily
- COVID source shout-out: New York expands eligibility
- CDC says 80% of teachers and childcare workers are vaccinated, fails to provide more specifics
- there might be a link between the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and those blood clots after all
- Did you know that you, a plebeian, can search through VAERS?
- How to talk about breakthrough cases
- Community Profile Reports now have vaccination data
- J&J is back on the menu
- COVID source shoutout: Unique vaccine metrics
- The data behind the CDC’s new mask guidance
- Pfizer for the whole pfamily (now CDC-verified!)
- The CDC needs to release state-by-state data on who’s getting vaccinated
- Vaccine cocktails look viable—just in time for hot-vax summer
- Why did the CDC change its breakthrough case reporting?
- Moderna for the middle children
- 25 million doses is a drop in the global vaccination bucket
- Featured sources, June 13
- COVID source shout-out: The CDD vaccinations page
- Novavax vaccine performs well—including against variants
- The US missed Biden’s July 4 goal: How did your community do?
- Breakthrough cases: What we know right now
- What’s up with Texas’ county-level vaccination data?
- The booster shot conversation: What you should know
- Unpacking Delta numbers from this week’s headlines
- Breakthrough case reporting: Once again, outside researchers do the CDC’s job
- Vaccine requirements are the next big strategy
- A dispatch from Provincetown, Mass.
- The case for a moratorium on booster shots
- Three more COVID-19 data points, August 15
- U.S. moves to approve booster shots despite minimal evidence
- Boosters for the vulnerable: FAQs following the FDA advisory meeting
- The data problem underlying booster shot confusion
- Our pandemic winter: Stories on what to expect
- Answering your COVID-19 questions
- 12 Long COVID stats that demonstrate the importance of vaccination
- New study demonstrates potential for measuring breakthrough risk
- COVID source callout: Booster shot trends
- Booster shots: What we’ve learned—and what we still don’t know
- Unreliable population numbers hinder vaccination rate analysis
- Another COVID-19 endgame take
- Booster shots exacerbate global vaccine inequity
- FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for younger children
- Booster shot data slowly makes it onto state dashboards, but demographic information is lacking
- Public health data in the US is “incredibly fragmented”: Zoe McLaren on booster shots and more
- Boosters for all adults: Why eligibility expanded, and what it means for you
- COVID source callout: CDC’s breakthrough case data
- Omicron variant: What we know, what we don’t, and why not to panic (yet)
- Vaccines aren’t enough: What Biden can do about Omicron
- Cash incentives for vaccination have little impact
- Omicron updates: More transmissible, immune evading, but still not cause for panic
- One month into vaccinations for kids 5-11, uptake varies wildly by state
- We failed to vaccinate the world in 2021; will 2022 be more successful?
- Omicron updates: The continued importance of vaccination
- Omicron updates: BA.2, vaccine effectiveness, and more
- As COVID-19 precautions are lifted, who remains vulnerable?
- Pandemic preparedness: Improving our data surveillance and communication
- Sources and updates, March 13
- The US still doesn’t have the data we need to make informed decisions on booster shots
- Sources and updates, May 8
- We need more data for fall booster decisions
- Sources and updates, July 31
- Data considerations for the new Omicron-specific booster shots
- COVID-19 risk factors that should lead to Omicron booster priority
- National numbers, September 25
- The U.S. needs to step up its booster shot campaign
- COVID source shout-out: Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker
- National numbers, October 16
- Sources and updates, October 23
- Sources and updates, October 30
- Sources and updates, November 6
- Sources and updates, November 13
- Sources and updates, November 20
- Sources and updates, December 4
- Sources and updates, December 11
- Sources and updates, December 18
- The future of COVID-19 vaccines needs more data
- Sources and updates, February 5
- Sources and updates, February 12
- Sources and updates, February 26
Variants
- We’re not doing enough sequencing to detect B.1.1.7
- Some optimistic vaccine news but variants still pose a major threat
- Featured sources, Feb. 21
- Featured sources, March 7
- NYC variant looks like bad news
- Featured sources, March 14
- New CDC page on variants still leaves gaps
- CDC stepped up sequencing, but the data haven’t kept pace
- National numbers, April 11
- National numbers, April 18
- How to talk about breakthrough cases
- National numbers, May 2
- All variant data are weeks old
- Source updates, May 16
- National numbers, May 30
- Why did the CDC change its breakthrough case reporting?
- New variant names from the WHO
- It’s time to worry about the Delta variant
- National numbers, June 20
- Featured sources, June 20
- Delta and Gamma are starting to dominate
- Breakthrough cases: What we know right now
- The Delta variant is taking over the world
- Unpacking Delta numbers from this week’s headlines
- Breakthrough case reporting: Once again, outside researchers do the CDC’s job
- Delta updates: Disease severity, kids, boosters
- Our pandemic winter: Stories on what to expect
- Featured sources, September 26
- Answering your COVID-19 questions
- Another COVID-19 endgame take
- Unpacking Delta AY.4.2: Are we prepared for the next variant?
- Reader question: How long will COVID-19 restrictions continue?
- Omicron variant: What we know, what we don’t, and why not to panic (yet)
- Omicron updates: What we’ve learned since last week
- Vaccines aren’t enough: What Biden can do about Omicron
- Omicron updates: More transmissible, immune evading, but still not cause for panic
- Omicron updates: Spreading rapidly in the U.S.
- COVID source callout: The CDC’s slow variant updates
- Omicron updates: A major surge is underway in the U.S.
- Omicron updates: ‘mild’ cases can still mean a nasty surge
- FAQ: Testing and isolation in the time of Omicron
- Omicron updates: the surge is here, but peaks might be in sight
- Six more things, January 9
- Omicron updates: Possible peaks, viral loads, vaccines
- Omicron updates: Where will these massive case numbers leave us?
- BA.2 FAQ: What you should know about this Omicron offshoot
- Other Omicron updates: Healthcare system, treatments, and more
- The CDC is finally publishing wastewater data—but only ten states are well-represented
- Omicron updates: The continued importance of vaccination
- Omicron updates: BA.2, vaccine effectiveness, and more
- Pandemic preparedness: Improving our data surveillance and communication
- A BA.2 surge is approaching: Here’s what you should know about this variant
- The US still doesn’t have the data we need to make informed decisions on booster shots
- Omicron keeps mutating as U.S. cases rise
- National numbers, April 24
- How one wastewater plant became a leading COVID-19 forecasting source
- More Omicron mutation in South Africa and the U.S.
- FAQ: BA.4 and BA.5, potentially the most transmissible Omicron subvariants yet
- As Omicron keeps mutating, variant surveillance remains important
- National numbers, July 3
- BA.2.75 is the latest Omicron subvariant of concern
- Sources and updates, September 4
- BA.2.75 (Centaurus) is still a subvariant worth watching
- National numbers, September 18
- BF.7, yet another Omicron subvariant of concern
- The Omicron subvariants start coming and they don’t stop coming
- National numbers, October 23
- National numbers, October 30
- National numbers, November 6
- How testing international travelers helps the CDC keep tabs on new variants
- National numbers, November 13
- National numbers, November 20
- National numbers, November 27
- XBB.1.5 FAQ: What you should know about the latest Omicron subvariant
- National numbers, January 15
- Looking ahead to the big COVID-19 stories of 2023
- National numbers, January 22
- National numbers, January 29
- National numbers, February 5
- National numbers, February 12
- National numbers, March 26
Wastewater
- The CDC is finally publishing wastewater data—but only ten states are well-represented
- Pandemic preparedness: Improving our data surveillance and communication
- COVID source shout-out: CDC wastewater dashboard upgrades
- How one wastewater plant became a leading COVID-19 forecasting source
- COVID source shout-out: SCAN’s wastewater dashboard
- COVID source callout: “No recent data” at hundreds of sewershed sites
- More transparency needed on CDC wastewater data
- Wastewater data gap follow-up: an update from Biobot
- Sources and updates, June 5
- Nine areas of data we need to manage the pandemic
- Introducing a new resource page on wastewater data
- Sources and updates, September 4
- Potential data fragmentation when the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ends
- COVID source callout: Wastewater data on a break
- National numbers, October 2
- Sources and updates, October 2
- Interpreting COVID-19 data as the CDC goes weekly and a fall surge approaches
- COVID source shout-out: New York wastewater dashboard
- Where to find wastewater data for your community
- National numbers, December 4
- COVID source shout-out: Variant data from wastewater
- Answering reader questions about data interpretation, good masking
- National numbers, December 18
- NYC’s wastewater program models the challenges facing local public health agencies
- National numbers, January 8
- Looking ahead to the big COVID-19 stories of 2023
- COVID source shout-out: Illinois’ new wastewater dashboard
- New wastewater surveillance report highlights need for expansion, standardization
- COVID source shout-out: More wastewater dashboards
- Wastewater surveillance can get more specific than entire sewersheds
- COVID source shout-out: Biobot continues its contract with the CDC
- COVID-19 is inspiring improvements to surveillance for other common viruses
- Sources and updates, February 26
- National numbers, March 5
- At-home tests, wastewater: COVID-19 testing after the public health emergency ends
- COVID-19 dashboards that haven’t shut down yet
- COVID source shout-out: WastewaterSCAN’s newsletter