COVID-19 visualization and data links

Sometimes this blog will look at non-DC history-related visualizations. A century after the Spanish Influenza today’s Coronavirus COVID-19 situation prompts this–with numerous websites showing a variety of data of various quality and currency.

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[NOTE: WHO reported “… no evidence that wearing a mask … can prevent … infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331693/WHO-2019-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.3-eng.pdf

Dr. Anthony Fauci explains why masks should not be worn by the general public: https://twitter.com/rhowardbrowne/status/1258015064319234048?s=20

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/mask-use-rises-dramatically-evidence-their-effectiveness-sparse-and

CDC Statistics — https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/

• By far the best visualization is Peter James Walker’s Tableau site:

Overall numbers: https://public.tableau.com/profile/peter.james.walker#!/vizhome/Coronavirus-ChangeovertimeintheUSA/0_Home

for example — for DC numbers click the DC circle.  The data is analyzed many ways and easy to explore.

The source data: https://covidtracking.com/data/state/district-of-columbia

• Another site is https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

  and DC data is here: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/district-of-columbia

Background here: http://www.healthdata.org/covid These are the projections the Federal government has been using. Worth noticing the very wide confidence intervals.

• International and national data is here at Worldometer

  : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

United States here:  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Most of Worldometer’s visualizations are poorly designed, particularly in comparison with all the other sites which provide a far richer context and analysis.

• Bing has published the COVID-19 Tracker

Maps: https://www.bing.com/covid 

Graphs here: https://www.bing.com/covid?vert=graph

DC data here: https://www.bing.com/covid/local/districtofcolumbia_unitedstates

• The CDC publishes COVIDView: A Weekly Surveillance Summary of U.S. COVID-19 Activity

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview.html

(but the visualizations are rather rudimentary) but interactive visualizations are available here:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluviewinteractive.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/main.html

some DC influenza data is here: DC Influenza Surveillance Data

• Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 ArcGIS-based dashboard –

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html is a bit tricky to navigate. Nature has done a feature on the behind the scenes activity  https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/behind-johns-hopkins-university-coronavirus-dashboard

• Our World in Data

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-daily-deaths-trajectory-per-million?country=BEL+BRA+FRA+ITA+NOR+ESP+SWE+GBR+USA

and many more links on the page

•  DC Government has a dashboard here:

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/coronavirus-data

Each state also has its own COVID-19 website.

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