The COVID Tracking Project ✓
@COVID19Tracking · joined 08 Mar 2020
We try to provide the most comprehensive state-level coronavirus data. Housed at @TheAtlantic.
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@COVID19Tracking With the upswing in Delta and other variants, will you resume this project? It would be very helpful, allowing us to make informed decisions.
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We looked to automation as a way to support and supplement the manual work of our volunteers, rather than replace it. This kept us focused on making sure we understood the data & the conclusions we could draw from it, especially as the pandemic evolved. https://t.co/a12OPTo1km
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From March 2020 to March 2021, our volunteers spent well over 20,000 hours manually entering data. In this post, we talk about why we chose not to automate our data collection. https://t.co/a12OPTo1km
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We also link to in-depth resources, both from our own site and from others. Ultimately, what we’ve learned is that when people understand why public health metrics are complicated, trust in the data reporting process grows. https://t.co/sJZooywKrC
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It’s been valuable for us to revisit our year with COVID-19 data. In this post, we dig into our history of reporting tests, cases, deaths, hospitalizations, and recoveries, and we explore the definitional problems that regularly challenged our analysis.
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Our data collection ended in March, and soon, the full @COVID19Tracking project will come to a close. In this summary post, we look at how states reported the 5 major COVID-19 metrics & how reporting complexities shaped our understanding of the pandemic. https://t.co/sJZooywKrC
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As we’ve seen with many COVID-19 metrics, there’s often a veneer of uniformity obscuring quiet data discrepancies. In this piece, we look at probable COVID-19 case definitions and the decisions states made about how and when to adopt federal guidance. https://t.co/94W6uMQDPp
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During the worst moments of the pandemic, the US public health data infrastructure could not keep up with COVID-19 death counts. Our new analysis looks at the effect of reporting lags on death data reported by states and the CDC: https://t.co/3JyTeTMNLB
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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.2 million tests, 41k cases, 40,212 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and 839 deaths. This is our final day of data collection after a very long year. https://t.co/fKDkp3iL03
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