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...
by Emily Haag | Jul 14, 2021 | Outbreak.info, user_stories
At a pivotal point in their nascent research careers, students need resources that are accessible, comprehensible, and detailed. This is especially true during the present era – a time coined the “Infodemic” for being flooded with biomedical research and data. Stony...
by Emily Haag | Jul 6, 2021 | Outbreak.info, user_stories, variants
As SARS-CoV-2 variants (mutated strains of the virus causing COVID-19) surface in different parts of the world, researchers rise to the challenge of examining tremendous amounts of new data and contextualizing it within what we already know about other strains.Over...
