What Data Is Missing?
Using sources like the
COVID Tracking Project and the
CDC we are able to start measure how a state is controlling the epidemic. Some sources are more "real-time" like
case data, but others can lag a week like
influenza-like illness (ILI) data. For the moment, this is the best representation of how a state is doing based on publicly available information.
Unfortunately, we cannot track how states are deploying contact tracing programs because that data is not reported yet. We also lack data sources for how states are implementing safe quarantine spaces. Once that data is available, we'll incorporate it.
How Are States Progressing on Reopening?
Using a simple red, yellow, green scale, you can see the progress towards achieving the gating criteria.
How is the Disease Spreading?
What's critical is a downward trajectory of illness reported and documented cases.
Can Our Health System Handle the Spread?
Bed and ICU availability, case fatality rate, and cases per capita are a proxy for load on our hospitals.
How Is My State Doing On Testing?
We track our country's daily progress towards two goals: reaching 500K tests per day and 4 million tests per day. The targets for each state have been adjusted per capita.
Data & Sources
The data for this site comes from
COVIDTracking.com (pulled at 5pm on 5/14),
rt.live (pulled at 5pm on 5/14), the
CDC (ILI pulled at 5pm on 5/13, ICU/bed occupancy pulled at 8:30pm 5/14), and
NYT. The data powering the charts can be found in this
Google Spreadsheet.
Contributors
We are a group of public health & crisis experts with experience working at the White House, Department of Health & Human Services, and on the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
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