Featured sources and federal data updates, Feb. 28
Featured sources and federal updates for the week of Feb. 28 include vaccines, the CDC’s methodology, school opening, and more.
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COVID source callout: Iowa
Iowa has taken down a page on its dashboard that used to report test positivity by school district. The page now goes to a 404 error, and there’s no mention of school data elsewhere on the state’s COVID-19 website.
Read MoreNew schools guidance fails to call for data reporting
Under Biden, national public health leadership could require that all public schools report their case counts, testing numbers, and enrollment numbers to the federal government—and publish these figures in a systematic way. But the new CDC guidance largely retains the status quo for school COVID-19 data.
Read MoreFederal data updates, Feb. 7
Since our main stories this week focused on NYC, here are a couple of updates from the federal public health agencies. This includes CDC vaccination data, vaccination demographics, and a survey from the Department of Education.
Read MoreExperts say schools could reopen, but data are still scarce
The medical journal JAMA released an article written by three CDC officials about opening schools. The conclusion was that it appears that reopening schools safely is possible—but before we turn everyone loose, there are a lot of caveats. And critically, protective measures that need to be taken are not limited to the schools themselves.
Read MoreSchools are reopening (again), but we still can’t track them
K-12 schools across the country are open for the spring semester, even as America faces serious outbreaks in almost every state and a more contagious strain—more contagious for both children and adults—begins to spread. At the national level, we are still overwhelmingly unable to track how the virus is spreading in these settings.
Read MoreSchool data update, Jan. 3
Many school districts across the nation will once again open for in-person instruction later this month. But data on how COVID-19 spreads in schools remain inadequate. At the request of one of my readers, I’ve updated my annotations of state K-12 data reporting, first published on December 6.
Read MoreSchools go on winter break but discourse continues
Rounding out the issue with a couple of updates on school data. Updates include: new cost estimates for school COVID-19 safety, a report advocating for mass testing, and a break for college data.
Read MoreHow are states reporting COVID-19 in schools?
In total, 35 states report case counts in all public K-12 schools. 6 states report in an incomplete form, either not including all schools or not including specific case counts. 9 states do not report school COVID-19 data at all. These states are: Alaska, California, Georgia, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming.
Read MoreFeatured sources, Nov. 29
Featured sources for Nov. 29 include Leading in Crisis briefs, COVID-19 in Congress, and the COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index.
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