Dr. Debra Furr-Holden, public health expert at Michigan State University, discusses the ongoing challenges of collecting and reporting COVID-19 race data, how data gaps fuel vaccine hesitancy, the equity challenges inherent in vaccine mandates, and more.
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Two weeks ago, a major new COVID-19 data source came on the scene: the Health Equity Tracker, developed by the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. To dig more into this valuable resource, I talked to Josh Zarrabi, senior software engineer at the Satcher Health Leadership.
Read MoreFeatured sources for the week of June 6 include vaccine incentives, health equity, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails.
Read MoreFeatured sources for the week of May 30 include healthcare workers, a new tool for tracking health equity, variant lineages, and more.
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This week, we finally got demographic state-by-state vaccination data from the CDC. Well… sort-of. A team from KHN received CDC state-by-state demographic vaccination data via a public records request. The data indicate that, despite promises from the White House to prioritize vulnerable communities in the vaccination campaign, a lot of inequities persist.
Read MoreTwo more important CDC data updates for this week: the CDC added more options for its vaccine demographic data and more recent variant data.
Read MoreHospital worker vaccination rates, a new study modeling COVID-19 deaths, a New York Times mix-up, and more.
Read MoreFeatured sources for the week of April 18 include CDC reports on COVID-19 hospitalization and Google search trends.
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A new study from the GenderSci Lab at Harvard sheds light on how race and sex intersect in COVID-19 death rates. Researchers Tamara Rushovich et al. used data from the only two states that do provide COVID-19 mortality data on sex and race: Georgia and Michigan. The patterns they found in both states complicate the well-known trend that men are more likely to die of COVID-19 than women.
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office suggests that the CDC’s tracker has a long way to go before it becomes the centralized system that Americans need. The report, released last Wednesday, is over 500 pages of problems and recommendations, ranging from the Emergency Use Authorization process to health care for veterans; but it includes some data bangers.
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