COVID Tracking Project
Type of site | Collaborative volunteer-run effort |
|---|---|
| Created by | Alexis Madrigal |
| Editor | Erin Kissane |
| Key people | Kai Curry, J. Peter Donald, Amanda French, Jeremia Kimelman, Elliott Klug, Julia Kodysh, Júlia Ledur, Zach Lipton, JD Maresco, Ethan Marcotte, Kevin Miller[disambiguation needed], Kara Oehler, Dustin Preisler[1] |
| URL | Official website |
| Launched | March 7, 2020 |
The COVID Tracking Project is a collaborative volunteer-run effort to track the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. It maintains a regularly updated database of a variety of types of information related to the outbreak, including counts of the number of positive and negative test results obtained in each state.[2][3] It obtains its data from "state health departments, local news reports and live news conferences", according to the New York Times.[4]
History
In early March 2020, two journalists, Robinson Meyer and Alexis Madrigal, started constructing a COVID-19 tracker for their investigation in the Atlantic. Around the same time, data scientist Jeff Hammerbacher was independently working on a similar tracking spreadsheet. The COVID Tracking Project was formed when these two projects merged into one on March 7, 2020. Madrigal leads the project, and Erin Kissane is its managing editor; Hammerbacher is no longer affiliated with the project.[5]
References
- ^ "About the Project". The COVID Tracking Project. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
- ^ Jin, Beatrice (March 16, 2020). "How many coronavirus cases have been found in each U.S. state". Politico. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
- ^ Sohn, Emily (March 24, 2020). "How the COVID Tracking Project fills the public health data gap". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
- ^ Buchanan, Larry; Lai, K. K. Rebecca; McCann, Allison (March 17, 2020). "U.S. Lags in Coronavirus Testing After Slow Response to Outbreak". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
- ^ "About The COVID Tracking Project". The COVID Tracking Project. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
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