I frequently rely on the CDC’s Weekly Review, a weekly newsletter that provides COVID-19 data updates, as a source for my own National Numbers updates. The CDC newsletter is usually posted on Friday afternoons. But this summer, the schedule has become far less regular.
Read MoreThis past Wednesday, the NIH announced that Dr. Anthony Fauci has tested positive for COVID-19. His symptoms are reportedly mild so far, but why is he still working from home?
Read MoreA recent edition of “The Morning,” the New York Times’ flagship newsletter, painted a misleading picture of COVID-19 disparities in the U.S.
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The CDC’s Community Levels are pretty useless when it comes to actually determining one’s COVID-19 risk. Moreover, the CDC isn’t even consistent with its calculations of these metrics.
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Anyone who’s pulled up the CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) dashboard in the last week or two has likely noticed this trend: hundreds of sewershed sites are currently marked as “no recent data.”
Read MoreFlorida recently switched from weekly COVID-19 reports to reports every other week—making it even more difficult for reporters, researchers, and others in the state to follow their local COVID-19 trends.
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It is now over a year into the U.S.’s vaccine rollout, and the CDC is still failing to publicly share data on vaccinations by state and race/ethnicity. I actually wrote a callout post about this in March 2021, and nothing has changed since then!
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Kentucky has made some changes to its COVID-19 data reporting, including the end of a vaccine demographics report and some very low-quality data visualizations.
Read MoreOn February 16, Iowa’s two COVID-19 dashboards—one dedicated to vaccination data, and one for other major metrics—will be decommissioned. The end of these dashboards follows the end of Iowa’s public health emergency declaration, on February 15.
Read MoreThe writers of the CDC’s COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review newsletter are getting a bit uncreative with their email subject lines.
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