Documenting COVID-19

We've launched our website this morning — documentingcovid19.io — with 54 document sets across 29 states. Many are embedded via @documentcloud and all are downloadable. Make sure to subscribe and follow us for regular updates.

The federal government has burned through more than $1 billion to study long Covid, and there's basically nothing to show for it. trib.al/kFzqdUb

an eye-opening trend in the united states:

EXCLUSIVE: The Texas Observer, the crusading liberal magazine founded in 1954, which Molly Ivins edited in the ’70s, is closing down and laying off its staff. The board voted on Wednesday, and again today, to proceed with the shutdown. texastribune.org/2023/03/26/tex…

A lot of news already in this @betanyc #nycsodata panel on NYC wastewater w/ @betsyladyzhets @kartikchandran1 @galeabrewer A takeaway: NYC is “nervous” about sharing too much data. “They think it’s going to panic people. So we have to work on it.” — Gale Brewer of @NYCCouncil

Columbia University researchers have identified unique coronavirus mutations in NYC wastewater that could be linked to higher rates of transmission and severe disease. my latest for @Gothamist/@WNYC & @19Documenting: gothamist.com/news/nyc-waste…

The Morning today is...wrong, by @dr_kkjetelina yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-morning-…

.@EmilyAnthes follows up on our @19Documenting & @freep work tracking down the 1st documented cases of mink-to-human COVID transmission in the U.S. Read more about the mystery & new answers here 👇

Heading to #cj2022? Come say hi, virtually or in person! @derekkravitz @betsyladyzhets @DillonBergin will be joined by @19Documenting colleagues @MoharChat @smarthgupta__ @fxy2014 to talk about data distribution and newsroom collaborations: cj2022.brown.columbia.edu/schedule

Umm. 1st place: @MuckRock @USATODAY @19Documenting 2nd place: @business 3rd place: @epicenter_nyc SAY WHAT??!!

as COVID-19 testing sites close and case numbers become less reliable, people are turning to wastewater surveillance for our pandemic forecasting questions. but is this system ready to answer them? my latest for @FiveThirtyEight & @19Documenting: fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-n… (1/8)

.@19Documenting recently released a GitHub data repository that provides county-level CDC mortality data from 2020 and 2021. We're hoping other reporters will use it to investigate deaths during the pandemic in their regions. coviddatadispatch.com/2022/04/10/new…

What are “excess deaths”? They are the number of more people who have died in a given period compared to the historical trend. We’ve put together a data repository of cause of death data for all 3,006 counties in the U.S. to help you investigate: bit.ly/3DBEvOt

@19Documenting and @MuckRock are publishing a new data repository to help you investigate whether COVID deaths have been underreported in your county or state. Check out the new tools and data here: 🔧🔬 bit.ly/3DBEvOt

As of last week, 158,212 more Americans have died during the pandemic from causes that, according to @CDCgov “could represent misclassified COVID-19 deaths.” We want to help you investigate in your community 🔍 bit.ly/3DBEvOt

The change, which was reported in February by @19Documenting and @MO_Independent, comes as the state is at the lowest level of COVID-19 spread since June. #moleg #mogov #mosen missouriindependent.com/2022/03/30/mis…

An analysis shows since the first COVID death in 2020, Cook County has seen thousands of deaths beyond what would be expected — the equivalent of a plane crash every two weeks — and it’s not all from the virus. chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/20…

The latest from our @19Documenting collaboration by @betsyladyzhets & @audreydutton: Idaho COVID-19 surge drove patient transfers, strained out-of-state hospitals: idahocapitalsun.com/2022/03/16/ida…

Last school year, Utah’s Test to Stay program drew national attention as a novel strategy to prevent COVID outbreaks. But in fall 2021, the program entirely collapsed. @erinalberty and I dug into why, for @sltrib / @19Documenting: (1/12)

5/ A recent article by the Documenting COVID-19 project @19Documenting and the USA TODAY Network used data and modeling from our paper to take a deep dive into under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths across U.S. counties. twitter.com/myersnews/stat…