Three more things, January 30

January 30, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

Three additional news items for this week: lawmakers call for Long COVID data; we don’t know yet whether cannabis can treat COVID-19; have you received your free tests yet?

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Featured sources, January 23

January 23, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Featured sources for the week of January 23 include booster shot effectiveness, rapid test coverage, and risk assessment.

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CovidTests.gov early rollout raises equity concerns; where’s the data?

January 23, 2022.Reading time 13 minutes.

This week, the U.S. government unveiled a new website where Americans can get free at-home COVID-19 tests. Within hours of this site going live, public health experts were already raising equity concerns about the free test distribution program. To address these concerns, the federal government should release data on where the free tests go—including breakdowns by state, county, ZIP code, race and ethnicity, the tests’ delivery dates, and more.

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FAQ: Testing and isolation in the time of Omicron

January 2, 2022.Reading time 15 minutes.

As Omicron spreads rapidly through the U.S., this variant is driving record case numbers—and record demand for testing, including both PCR and rapid at-home tests. In other words, it feels harder than ever to get tested for COVID-19, largely because more people currently need a test due to recent exposure to the virus than at any other time during the pandemic.

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The short-term future of COVID-19 testing

April 25, 2021.Reading time 32 minutes.

This week, I had a story on COVID-19 testing published in Slate’s Future Tense vertical. The piece explores how testing will change in the next few months as more Americans become vaccinated and rapid tests become more widely available. In the CDD today, I’m excited to share one of the interviews I conducted for the piece, with Dan Larremore, a statistician at the University of Colorado and long-time advocate for the potential of rapid tests.

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Federal data updates, Feb. 7

February 7, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Since our main stories this week focused on NYC, here are a couple of updates from the federal public health agencies. This includes CDC vaccination data, vaccination demographics, and a survey from the Department of Education.

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