Our Analysis
Federal COVID Data
How to move from our dataset to those provided by the federal government.
How We Made The COVID Tracking Project
How a group of volunteers provided the most complete and accurate data about COVID-19 in the US.
Nursing Homes & Long-Term-Care Data
Understanding the impact of the pandemic on our most vulnerable community.
- What We Know About the Impact of the Pandemic on the Long-Term-Care Community
- Giving Thanks and Looking Ahead: Our Data Collection Work Is Done
- Federal COVID Data 101: Working with CMS Nursing Home Data
- Vaccine Distribution Data in Long-Term-Care Facilities Needs to Be Public
- How We Hope Vaccines Will Be Tracked
Race & COVID
Tracking how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other people of color.
- Federal COVID Data 101: What We Know About Race and Ethnicity Data
- Why Some States Won’t Share Race and Ethnicity Data on Vaccinations with the CDC
- The State of COVID-19 Race and Ethnicity Data
- State-Level Vaccine Demographic Data is Messy and Incomplete—We Need Federal Data, Now
- How We Hope Vaccines Will Be Tracked
Vaccination Data
Applying lessons from a year of The COVID Tracking Project to what’s needed from federal vaccination data.
All Our Analysis & Updates
- Why We Didn’t Automate Our Data Collection
- The Five Major Metrics of COVID-19 Data
- How Probable Cases Changed Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
- How Lagging Death Counts Muddled Our View of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- How We Used Multiple Dating Schemes to Provide the Most Complete Picture of the Pandemic
- How and Why We Built a Screenshot System
We would like to thank the hundreds of volunteers who,
for the last 12 months, collected and published
the most complete data about COVID-19 in the US.
The COVID Tracking Project was cited in more than 1,000 academic papers, including major medical journals like The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, and JAMA.
We received awards for our work from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Sigma Awards, and the NYU Journalism Online Awards.
Our data was used by two presidential administrations and an array of federal agencies, including the CDC, HHS, and FDA.
Federal lawmakers used our data in at least 11 letters demanding answers on the pandemic response from government leaders and commercial labs.
And our data was cited in over 7,700 news stories in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Vox, ProPublica, and many more.
