The CDC is now updating its COVID-19 cases and deaths data weekly, instead of daily. This shift goes beyond the agency’s public dashboard: the CDC has also archived datasets with state- and county-level data providing COVID-19 cases and deaths.
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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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The CDC’s Community Levels are pretty useless when it comes to actually determining one’s COVID-19 risk. Moreover, the CDC isn’t even consistent with its calculations of these metrics.
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