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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.
The COVID Tracking Project
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We try to provide the most comprehensive state-level coronavirus data. Housed at @TheAtlantic.
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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. covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
covidtracking.com Analysis & updates | 20,000 Hours of Data Entry: Why We Didn’t Automate Our Data Collection 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. covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
covidtracking.com Analysis & updates | A Wrap-Up: The Five Major Metrics of COVID-19 Data 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. covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
covidtracking.com Analysis & updates | How Probable Cases Changed Through the COVID-19 Pandemic When analyzing COVID-19 data, confirmed case counts are obvious to study. But don’t overlook probable cases—and the varying, evolving ways that states have defined them. 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: covidtracking.com/analysis-updat…
covidtracking.com Analysis & updates | How Lagging Death Counts Muddled Our View of the COVID-19 Pandemic During the worst parts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States struggled to keep up with COVID-19 death counts.