Sources and updates, January 15

January 15, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Sources and updates for the week of January 15 include a Long COVID review paper, COVID-19 on airplanes, nursing home issues, and more.

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12 statistics showing the pandemic isn’t over

September 25, 2022.Reading time 12 minutes.

Last Sunday, 60 Minutes aired an interview with President Joe Biden in which he declared the pandemic is “over,” noting that everyone at the Detroit Auto Show “seems to be in pretty good shape.” But there are millions of Americans Biden wasn’t seeing: people who aren’t in good shape.

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Sources and updates, May 1

May 1, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Featured sources for the week of May 1 include vaccination rates in nursing homes, neighborhood-level health disparities, access to hospital services, and more.

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Sources and updates, April 24

April 24, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Data sources and updates for the week of April 24 include COVID-19 on airplanes, death rates by race and ethnicity, Long COVID research, and more.

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Featured sources, December 19

December 19, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Featured sources for the week of December 19 include preventable COVID-19 deaths, nursing home data, news workers laid off, and more.

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Featured sources, September 12

September 12, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Featured sources for the week of September 12 include polling on school reopening, nursing homes, and case acceleration.

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Featured sources, June 27

June 27, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Featured sources for the week of June 27 include vaccine hesitancy, nursing homes, and housing.

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Featured sources, Sept. 6

September 6, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Featured sources for Sept. 6 include demographic data, long-term care data, and N-95 respirators.

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New reporting requirements for nursing homes, hospitals, labs

August 30, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Last Tuesday, CMS announced that nursing homes are required to test their staff and offer to test their residents when a COVID-19 outbreak occurs. Facilities that don’t test adequately can be fined. These new requirements follow the recent large-scale distribution of antigen tests to nursing homes, a move I’ve discussed in previous issues.

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Featured sources, Aug. 16

August 16, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Featured sources for Aug. 16 include healthcare workers, long-term care facilities, and a Census survey.

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