by Emily Haag | Sep 21, 2021 | covid19_testing, delta_variant, Outbreak.info, user_stories, vaccination, variants
How Scientists are Using Data to Increase COVID-19 Testing, Vaccinations, and Health Literacy in Arkansas In rural Arkansas, thousands of people lacked easy access to COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and health education, including information on emerging variants. That...
by Emily Haag | Sep 7, 2021 | data_journalism, delta_variant, Outbreak.info, user_stories, variants
A young writer in Japan who has been tackling the pandemic from viewpoint of the news shares about using Outbreak.info to access vital data.Anna Nishino entered the world of journalism in the middle of a pandemic. Assigned to cover COVID-19 from her first day on the...
by Emily Haag | Aug 30, 2021 | alpha_variant, delta_variant, Outbreak.info, user_stories, variants
When someone washes their hands, flushes a toilet, or showers, the wastewater is discharged to municipal sanitary sewer pipes and flows to a wastewater treatment plant. Before the water is treated, the raw wastewater can be analyzed to detect the prevalence of...