Four decades of increasingly consumer-focused IT developments have given consumers more and more ability to care for their own health, pulling activities out of the healthcare system. Healthcare, for the most part, is unaware of the process, or dismissive of “Dr. Google”. But this “selfcare” revolution will continue to empower consumers — and to disrupt healthcare.
Read MoreWe 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.
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