Sources and updates, February 26
Sources and updates for the week of February 26 include deaths in U.S. prisons, the future of COVID-19 vaccines, airplane wastewater testing, and more.
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Featured sources, January 30
Featured sources for the week of January 30 include hospital capacity by state and county, wastewater monitoring, prisoners released in 2020, and vaccine requirements.
Read MoreCOVID source callout: Underreported cases in prisons
Data collected by the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project show that Omicron is spreading incredibly fast in U.S. prisons. Yet many facilities and state departments of corrections fail to accurately report these case data.
Read MoreCOVID source callout: States go dark on prison case numbers
We’ve noted in recent months that several states have scaled down their COVID-19 reporting: states are providing fewer metrics, updating their dashboards less frequently, or both. According to the UCLA COVID Behind Bars data project, these changes are also hitting state carceral agencies—responsible for reporting COVID-19 cases in prisons and jails—right as Delta causes new outbreaks in these facilities.
Read MoreFeatured sources, April 25
Featured sources for the week of April 25 include COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons and a new risk assessment tool.
Read MoreCOVID Source callout: Federal Bureau of Prisons
For the past year, nonprofit news organization The Marshall Project has tracked COVID-19 cases in prisons, in collaboration with The Associated Press. The tracking effort has primarily focused on compiling numbers from state and federal prison bureaus, through a weekly tally that compares total cases reported by these agencies to their previous totals. This week, though, the Federal Bureau of Prisons started excluding a lot of prisoners from their count, making it impossible for the Marshall Project to compile accurate numbers.
Read MoreFeatured sources, March 21
Featured sources for the week of March 21 include data quality for COVID-19 behind bars and local economies.
Read MoreDiving into COVID-19 data #2: Workshop recap
Our second workshop happened this week! Liz Essley Whyte, an investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, discussed her work bringing White House COVID-19 reports to the public before they were officially released. Erica Hensley, an independent health and data journalist based in Jackson, Mississippi, provided advice for navigating relationships with local public health officials based on her work reporting on COVID-19 in Mississippi. And Tom Meagher, a senior editor at The Marshall Project, described the communication and coordination work behind his newsroom’s yearlong tracker of COVID-19 in the U.S. prison system. Thank you to everyone who attended!
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