Sources and updates, June 26
Sources and updates for the week of June 26 include Paxlovid distribution, booster shot uptake, and a guide to government COVID-19 documents.
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Nine areas of data we need to manage the pandemic
Will we ever get control of this pandemic? We can, but better data will go a long way in helping us get there. Here are nine areas where I’d like to see improvement.
Read MoreSources and updates, May 8
Sources and updates for the week of May 8 include booster shots, vaccine attitudes, wastewater data, and source diversity.
Read MoreSources and updates, March 27
Sources and updates for the week of March 27 include workplace violence for public health officials, at-home tests, and another round of booster shots.
Read MoreSources and updates, March 20
Sources and updates for the week of March 20 include a revamped tracker for deaths by race and ethnicity, the CDC possibly taking back hospital data reporting, global excess deaths, and more.
Read MoreSources and updates, December 12
Featured sources for the week of December 12 include booster shot trends, global health security, children orphaned by COVID-19, and alcohol laws.
Read MoreSources and updates, November 28
Sources and updates for the week of November 28 include more states now reporting booster shot data, and a survey of burned-out healthcare workers.
Read MoreBoosters for all adults: Why eligibility expanded, and what it means for you
On Friday morning, the FDA authorized booster shots of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines for all adults in the U.S., six months after their first two doses. The CDC’s vaccine advisory committee voted to support this expanded booster eligibility that afternoon, and CDC leadership signed off on it a few hours later.
Read MorePublic health data in the US is “incredibly fragmented”: Zoe McLaren on booster shots and more
This week, I had a new story published at the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight. The story explores the U.S.’s failure to comprehensively track breakthrough cases, and how that failure has led officials to look towards data from other countries with better tracking systems as they make decisions about booster shots. In the CDD, I’m sharing one of the interviews I did for that story.
Read MoreBooster shot data slowly makes it onto state dashboards, but demographic information is lacking
This weekend, I set out to see what data are now available on these booster shots. I updated my vaccination data in the U.S. resource page, which includes detailed annotations on every state’s vaccine reporting along with several national and international sources.
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