Unpacking U.S. data gaps and lack of public health action with Jason Salemi

June 12, 2022.Reading time 36 minutes.

Last week, I had a new story published at FiveThirtyEight about the challenges a new CDC forecasting center is facing. Here’s one of the interviews I did for that piece, with epidemiologist Jason Salemi.

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Sources and updates, June 5

June 5, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

Sources and updates for the week of June 5 include a new chart on the CDC’s wastewater dashboard and studies showing COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Native Americans.

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CDC launches new pandemic forecasting center

April 24, 2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

This week, the CDC introduced a new team focused on modeling infectious diseases, called the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (or CFA). The agency aims to hire about 100 scientists and communicators for the center; they’ll currently focus on COVID-19, but will expand to other diseases in the future.

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