New covid-19 tracker highlights rural inequalities; meanwhile, new federal database plagued with inaccuracies - Entrepreneur Generations

A screengrab from the CURE database. Washington State University map; click the image to enlarge it.

Scientists from Washington State University's Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine have launched an online tracker that provides daily updates on covid-19 cases and deaths in rural communities.

The Covid Urban Rural Explorer also highlights rural-urban contrasts in the pandemic, providing a daily report on areas with spiking cases. It also identifies rural counties with both limited hospital capacity and rapidly increasing infections. Moreover, it provides daily case and death statistics based on a moving seven-day average.

CURE uses publicly available data. The data on cases and deaths comes from The New York Times (which receives its data from state and local health agencies and hospitals). Hospital bed data comes from The Accountability Project, which receives the data for that database from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Population data comes from the U.S. Census Bureau.

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