by CivicMeter Staff | Jun 29, 2020 | COVID-19
We’ve been talking with journalists around the country during this crisis, and have seen some recurring opportunities to enhance COVID stories that feature a data component. Some of these points are well-known and oft-used; some are not. But they are all...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
The severity of COVID-19 outbreaks vary by state. One useful way to look at how the situation is escalating is by looking at hospitalizations, both as a raw number and per capita. See the full chart on the CivicMeter COVID-19...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
CivicMeter has added per capita data to our chart tracking COVID-19 cases in U.S. states. Confirmed case totals can be skewed by under-testing and other factors. This is true for raw numbers as well as per capita case totals. Deaths per 1 million, while still subject...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Using University of Washington’s model, CivicMeter has charted the projected date of COVID’s peak in each U.S. state, as well as the healthcare resources that will be required during these peaks. Some states, like California, aren’t projected to run...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 31, 2020 | Modelpedia
Which COVID-19 models are right, and which are wrong? We don’t know, that’s fine. Because as Zeynep Tufekci writes in The Atlantic today, “right answers are not what epidemiological models are for”. Tufekci, an associate professor at the...
