We didn’t need widespread COVID-19 testing to realize that we needed a lockdown: we could see that based on our hospital system capacity. And we don’t need widespread testing to start relaxing that lockdown, because we can guide our first steps based on those same hospital measure.
Read MoreAfrican-Americans get COVID-19 at twice the rate per population as whites and they die at five times the rate as whites.
And Asian-Americans who get COVID-19 in the District are five times more likely than whites to die.
Read More“If it bleeds it leads” is in full force for coronavirus reporting: what the media leaves in their stories, and what they leave out.
Read MoreI wanted a data visualization that gave me a 30,000 foot view of the pace and scale of this outbreak OUTSIDE China. Couldn’t find one, so I made it. Now I’ve got a collection of dataviz that I can’t find elsewhere.
Read MoreI looked into coronavirus maps from Harvard, Hopkins, WHO, the NY Times and others — and found that every one of them is mapping the wrong information — in a way that makes the epidemic look worse than it is.
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