kissane

@kissane

Managing editor . Prev editorial , tech/culture orgs. Wrote The Elements of Content Strategy. Ethics, mutual aid, liberation.

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    23 hours ago

    Friday summary of SOME what is going on with vitally important COVID-19 data in the US. On May 9, the CDC finally started releasing testing data. It was, they said, reported by state public health departments. They clearly and repeatedly labeled it "viral testing data."

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    20 hours ago

    More on what happened in Texas from , , and :

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    22 hours ago

    This is why it’s so important to separate viral and antibody test data now. Even though antibody tests aren’t especially useful to individuals, more and more of them are happening, and they can make up large share of overall testing on a daily basis.

    Look at Colorado, which offers its viral and antibody test data back through time. If you look at the cumulative numbers (left), it doesn't look like antibody testing would throw off the numbers by *that* much. But go to the daily numbers (right) and it's a different story.
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    May 22

    Texas is now breaking out antibody test data, which is good. But the new data show Texas was overstating its viral test capacity by about 10%. Antibody tests came online around the last week of April. Since then, 1 in 10 of Texas’s reported tests were actually for antibodies.

    Replying to @TheAtlantic @alexismadrigal @yayitsrob
    Texas updated test numbers this afternoon to break out antibody tests.
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  5. 23 hours ago

    * Before May 9, the CDC's testing data reporting looked like this—CDC in white, state-reported data in dark blue. Which is why has been compiling the numbers every day since early March.

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  6. 23 hours ago

    This is what we're seeing on May 22, 2020, four months after the first known COVID-19 case in the US: "Officials have been working to develop standardized criteria to alleviate complaints about confusion about reporting requirements."

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  7. 23 hours ago

    This isn't just a nerdy nitpicking thing. Getting testing data wrong—while states are trying to reopen—is deeply destructive, according to every public health person we've spoken to. Meanwhile, at the CDC…

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  8. 23 hours ago

    The CDC, meanwhile, quietly stopped calling their testing data "viral testing data." and wrote up the full story.

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  9. 23 hours ago

    Now back to the CDC data. Local reporters dug into the state/CDC discrepancies we found and discovered that in fact, not only were more states mixing antibody and viral testing, *so was the CDC*.

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  10. 23 hours ago

    Note: We are a *volunteer public health data rescue project*. We are not the CDC or the . But since some states have been responsive to our requests for data transparency, we went ahead and issued a statement.

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  11. 23 hours ago

    And since VA was blaming their choice on a lack of CDC guidance about data reporting, the did the only thing we could do, which was suggest simple guidelines for states who were considering mixing the two kinds of tests.

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  12. 23 hours ago

    Just before the CDC's silent data release, we had discovered (thanks to local reporting) that Virginia was mixing viral (diagnostic) and antibody (population prevalence) tests in its dashboard. This is bad! and wrote about it.

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  13. 23 hours ago

    And and wrote up the core findings for

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  14. 23 hours ago

    They didn't announce this data release. found it on May 13 thanks to the keen eyes of . We spent the next five days doing an in-depth research report on the CDC data and its mismatches with official state data.

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    May 22

    New project alert: The coronavirus pandemic exposed longstanding chronic health disparities in POC communities in the U.S. To explore these areas, and I visualized health and race data for the entire nation

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  16. May 21

    I want to note that *weeks* of painstaking data analysis + public health + design attention went into the process of presenting this nightmarishly incomplete data in accessible, clear, and statistically honest ways.

    The team created a new and improved racial data dashboard, too. It flags disparities on a state-by-state basis, and also shows where we don’t have enough information to draw firm conclusions.
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    May 21

    The team created a new and improved racial data dashboard, too. It flags disparities on a state-by-state basis, and also shows where we don’t have enough information to draw firm conclusions.

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    May 21

    In partnership with the , we’re proud to announce the first official release of our COVID Racial Data Tracker: The site provides a snapshot of the disparities that we’re seeing reported by states. The whole dataset is also available.

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    May 21

    This is a big deal. The idea of events as a key part of the funding model for journalsm orgs, especially local and nonprofits, has been championed for years. So, right now, orgs that adopted it are being hit on multiple fronts.

    It's not just news advertising that's collapsing. The burgeoning events sideline that helped prop up some print businesses is going too.
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    May 21

    The upshot: states don’t look nearly as good with the new metric. made a gif that shows it really well:

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