Pandemic and policy tracker

(agk) Links – 2020 July

News summaries:

• David Dayen’s COVID-19 daily reports (The American Prospect), updates daily at 11 AM.
• Weekly Shift (Politico) updates Mondays at 10 AM with labor, employment, and immigration news.

Cases, fatalities, recovered, tested:

• Visualizations of global pandemic situation, @jburnmurdoch (Financial Times)
• Time-series visualizations by country and US state, @profwade_ (University of Illinois). Check mortality before freaking about new cases.
• U.S. cases, testing, and fatalities (COVID Tracking Project).
• Map visualization of county-level data (Harvard Global Health Institute).

Policy and populations:

• COVID-19 risk assessment planning tool (Georgia Tech Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory). Chance someone in a crowd of specified size in specified US county is COVID-19 positive.
• COVID19 Projections, @youyanggu (MIT '15). Currently the most accurate projections of future cases and deaths, organized by country, US state, and select US counties.
• US county-level impact planning data (Environmental Systems Research Institute). For every county, 2-page summary of healthcare resources, seniors, people with disabilities, people without cars, population health insurance data, etc.

Other policy trackers:

• Population reduction in each US prison and jail (End Incarceration).
• Dashboard of US state policy responses (National Governor's Association).
• Budget shortfalls and proposed austerity measures in US municipalities with populations over 30,000 (US Conference of Mayors).
• US state election information (vote.org).
• Utilities suspending disconnection and regulator-mandated suspensions (Energy and Policy Institute).
• COVID-19 Strike Map (Payday Report).
• Explore supply chains (Observatory of Economic Complexity).

Links and analysis:

• Naked Capitalism curates a wealth of links at 9 AM and 2 PM daily.
• Moon of Alabama publishes well-sourced analysis every few days, mostly on coronavirus and war.
• My old link list includes care, mutual aid, and benefit programs.