Google released a search trends dataset earlier this month. Using this dataset, Adam…
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Google search trends dataset for Covid-19 symptoms
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Shift of Covid-19 deaths to medium and small cities
When this all started, Covid-19 was impacting large cities at a much higher…
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Election night might take weeks
For The Washington Post, Ashlyn Still and Kevin Schaul charted how long it…
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Tracking the mail
With mail-in ballots looking to be more common than ever this year, NYT’s…
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Math behind wearing masks
The math behind wearing a mask can seem unintuitive at times. Minute Physics…
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Multiple Causes of Death
There’s a 6 percent figure from the CDC that could be easily misinterpreted. Here’s what it means.
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Minimizing risk
For NYT Opinion, Aaron E. Carroll on doing small things that sum to…
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Dying mid-range mall
Bloomberg looks at how retail struggles might kill the middle-of-the-road malls before this…
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FDA commissioner corrects his misinterpretation of reduced mortality
Talking about a possible plasma treatment for Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration…
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Visits to businesses compared year-over-year in each state
Businesses are still seeing visits mostly down compared to last year, which shouldn’t…
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Excess deaths, by race
It’s clear that Covid-19 has affected groups differently across the United States. By…
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Tracking who’s wearing masks correctly
For The Los Angeles Times, Casey Miller went hyperlocal to track mask wearing…
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Census counting during the pandemic
Reporting for The New York Times, Giovanni Russonello on the decennial census during…
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Where schools are ready to reopen
For NYT Opinion, Yaryna Serkez and Stuart A. Thompson estimated where we’re ready:…
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2020 Progress Bars
I thought March was only 31 days, but the system seems stuck. Did anyone try turning it off and on again.
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New dating timeline
Liana Finck for Man Repeller draws out the new timeline. I’m a couple…
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How air spreads on a subway train
If someone sneezes in a closed space, you hope that the area has…
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Visual explanation for how herd immunity works
Herd immunity works when you have enough people who are immune to a…
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Distribution of unemployment at the tract level
We’ve been hearing a lot about national unemployment rate, but it’s not uniformly…
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What schools might look like if students go back
Dana Goldstein, with illustrations by Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, imagines what school might look like…
