Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS
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Blog | The Third Surge Has Arrived. Plus, Updates on Data from Long-Term Care Facilities: This Week in COVID-19 Data, Oct 15
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS
A heavy weekly update: Fall has brought a 3rd surge of COVID-19. New COVID-19 cases jumped 18% this week, bringing the 7-day average to more than 51,000 cases per day. Not a great way to start flu season.
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Test Positivity: So Valuable, So Easy to Misinterpret
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS
Test positivity is extremely useful, but it has also become one of the most commonly misunderstood metrics for monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic. Our first #scrollytelling blog post explains what it really means. H/t @juledurg and @twang0518!
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How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election—and Shaking the Foundation of American Democracy
Democracy relies on an informed public responding to real-life facts. But a growing number of Americans are untethered from reality.
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS
“They aren’t just infected with conspiracy; they appear to be inoculated against reality.”
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Blog | Counting COVID-19 Tests: How States Do It, How We Do It, and What’s Changing
The COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete testing data available for US states and territories.
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS
Many states have moved toward greater transparency about their test data reporting methods, and we’re making changes to better represent what they publish. There's also a "better" way states/territories could be counting tests. Read more on our blog.
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Blog | The Last Thing We Need Is Fewer Tests: This Week in COVID-19 Data, Aug 6
The COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete testing data available for US states and territories.
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS
This week’s data marks a return to ambiguities we last saw in April and May. Deaths continued their steady rise. And new complications like technical glitches and school re-openings threaten to cloud the picture even further.
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