September 21 - Op-Ed: The White House Coronavirus Task Force needs to stop hiding its weekly reports from the public







Read the full op-ed at STAT.

Like a hurricane, a virus has no respect for borders or state lines. All data regarding the COVID response that is assembled by the White House Coronavirus Task Force and HHS must be shared with everyone. A public crisis requires a unified public response. A unified public response requires public data.

September 17 - PRESS CALL - COVID-19 SPREAD INDICATORS UNDER FIRE, WHAT TO WATCH BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER, COLLEGE SPORTS, & PREPARING FOR FLU SEASON







You can view the

Earlier today, CovidExitStrategy.org, United States of Care, Resolve to Save Lives, COVID Act Now, and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy held a press webinar outlining new data on COVID-19 spread indicators, college hotspots and addressed how states can prepare for flu season.You can view the video of the press conference here

September 1 - Carnegie Mellon University's Symptom Survey & Symptom Data Challenge







Also! The

We have added symptom data from Carnegie Mellon University's Delphi group. The group coordinates a daily symptom survey with Facebook, a consortium of universities, and public health officials. It has run continuously since early April 2020, and about 70,000 people in the United States participate every day. You will see this data in our "How is the Disease Spreading?" table.Also! The Symptom Data Challenge challenges participants to enable earlier detection and improved situational awareness of the COVID-19 outbreak by using data from these symptom surveys. Submissions are due by Tuesday, September 29th, 2020. See the challenge website for more details.

August 17 - Why is positivity in Washington at 100%? Because the state has a data issue.







The state reports that the issue will be fixed by next week: "Updates are anticipated to resume the week of August 24th after we switch to the new methodology reporting total testing volumes rather than just the number of new individuals who got a negative or positive test result for the first time."

Since August 1st, Washington state has not reported its daily test tallies. This is because of issues with the state's disease reporting system . We rely on the COVID Tracking Project and their team aggregates the publicly available data from the state's website . Since no data is available, our calculation for a state's positivity [Cases / Total Tests] is 100%.The state reports that the issue will be fixed by next week: "Updates are anticipated to resume the week of August 24th after we switch to the new methodology reporting total testing volumes rather than just the number of new individuals who got a negative or positive test result for the first time."

August 12 - PRESS CALL - INCIDENCE ADJUSTED TEST TARGET & ADDRESSING DATA DISCREPANCIES

