Welcome to another week with The Ventilator Project. According to an NPR investigation, a majority of US states are gathering data from contact tracing efforts, but only 13 are making the information publicly available. “The data states are gathering includes how...
According to a Reuters tally, more than 160,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. There have been 4.91 million cases in total, the highest of any country. Cases are on the rise in 20 US states, and deaths on the rise in 23 states. The US ranks 10th highest in the...
The AC was broken this week at the TVP office. It’s always interesting to see how different people will react to the heat. Some aren’t affected at all, while others get loopy, or distracted, or so drowsy they can’t go five minutes without lying their heads on their...
As we head into the last week of July, the numbers that trail behind us as a nation look grim. “Fatalities nationwide were recorded at 1,118 on Thursday. Deaths were 1,135 on Wednesday and 1,141 on Tuesday. …The United States on Thursday also passed a total of...
photo credit: The Wall Street Journal Wait times for COVID-19 tests are yet another obstacle in getting a clear picture of how to adequately respond to this crisis, on both an individual and administrative level. Delays in testing can confound contract tracing...