Featured sources, January 16
Featured sources for the week of January 16 include Long COVID case estimates, disease severity, and vaccination dashboards.
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Hospitalization data lag behind the actual crisis
A record number of COVID-19 patients are now receiving care in U.S. hospitals, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Even so, reports from the doctors and other staff working in these hospitals—conveyed in the news and on social media—suggest that the HHS data don’t capture the current crisis. The federal data may be reported with delays and fail to capture the impact of staffing shortages, obscuring the fact that many regions and individual hospitals are currently operating at 100% capacity.
Read MoreFeatured sources, January 9
Featured sources for the week of January 9 include hospital capacity, cruise ships, and severe cases averted by vaccines.
Read MoreFeatured sources, September 19
Featured sources for the week of September 19 include K-12 testing, vaccine hesitancy, hospital reporting, and Long COVID.
Read MoreNational numbers, September 5
Nationally, the current COVID-19 surge appears to be in a plateau. The number of new cases rose by just 5% this week, after a 3% rise last week. Hospitalizations are in a similar position: the number of patients in the hospital with COVID-19 has held steady at about 90,000 for the past two weeks.
Read MoreOne data researcher’s journey through South Carolina’s COVID-19 reporting
I invited Philip Nelson to contribute a post this week after reading his Tweets about his ongoing challenges in accessing his state’s hospitalization data. Basically, after Philip publicized a backend data service that enabled users to see daily COVID-19 patient numbers by individual South Carolina hospital, the state restricted this service’s use—essentially making the data impossible for outside researchers to analyze.
Read MoreThree more COVID-19 data points, August 15
A couple of additional items from this week’s COVID-19 headlines: children hospitalized with COVID-19, immunocompromised Americans now eligible for a third dose, and low cases linked to Lollapalooza.
Read MoreFeatured sources, June 20
Featured sources for the week of June 20 include the Delta variant, doctor vaccinations, and hospital closures.
Read MoreHHS makes it easier to compare hospitalizations by age
This week, the HHS added hospital admissions by age to its state-level hospitalization dataset. Now, if you want to see a patient breakdown for your state, you can simply look at the state-level info already compiled by HHS data experts, rather than summing up numbers from the facility-level info yourself.
Read MoreFeatured sources, April 11
Featured sources for the week of April 11 include healthcare worker deaths, hospitalization data, and food insecurity.
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