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Contact tracing
- I am once again asking: why are journalists doing this?
- Contact tracing: Too little, too late, no public data
- Your Thanksgiving could be a superspreading event
- We need better contact tracing data
- Was the Capitol invasion a superspreader event?
- Where are we most likely to catch COVID-19?
- Privacy-first from the start: The backstory behind your exposure notification app
- Evaluating exposure notification apps: Expanded methodology behind the story
- Video: The future of exposure notifications
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
- The 20 best COVID-19 data stories of 2020
- Your guide to choosing a COVID-19 data source
- Featured sources, Jan. 10
- Featured sources, Jan. 17
- Featured sources, Jan. 24
- Featured sources, Jan. 31
- Federal data updates, Feb. 7
- Featured sources, Feb. 14
- Featured sources, Feb. 21
- Featured sources and federal data updates, Feb. 28
- Goodnight, COVID Tracking Project
- 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
- CDC stepped up sequencing, but the data haven’t kept pace
- 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
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
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
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
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
- COVID-19 school data remain sporadic
- 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
- New schools guidance fails to call for data reporting
- Teachers can get vaccinated in every state, but we don’t know how many are
- K-12 school updates, March 21
- 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?
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
National numbers
- Which COVID numbers you should pay attention to, actually
- March for the dead, fight for the living
- 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
- Goodnight, COVID Tracking Project
- 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
Reader feedback
- How many COVID-19 cases are actively circulating in your community?
- Issue #10: reflecting and looking forward
- Answering readers’ COVID-19 questions
- Our favorite COVID-19 sources
- Gaps we see in COVID-19 data
- The COVID-19 Data Dispatch has moved
- Support the COVID-19 Data Dispatch
- One year of the CDD: Reader reflections
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
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?
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
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
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