Featured sources, January 9
Featured sources for the week of January 9 include hospital capacity, cruise ships, and severe cases averted by vaccines.
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Featured 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.
Read MoreFeatured sources, Jan. 10
Featured sources for the week of Jan. 10 include a visualization of hospital facilities, therapeutics distribution, and hospital discharges.
Read MoreFacility-level hospitalization data updated on schedule
In the interest of giving credit to the HHS where credit is due: the agency updated its new facility-level hospitalization dataset right on schedule this past Monday. Last week, I used this hospitalization dataset—along with the HHS’s state-level hospitalization data—to build several visualizations showing how COVID-19 has hit hospitals at the individual, county, and state levels. I also wrote a brief article on COVID-19 hospitalizations for Stacker, hosting visualizations and highlighting some major insights.
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