COVID

COVID Cases, Hospitalizations Rising, While Vaccinations Plateau in New Dashboard

By Veronica Tan 2 weeks ago

Now that the state has a COVID-19 dashboard again, Nebraskans can see how the pandemic has ramped up since it’s early summer lull.

Cases and hospitalizations are rising, while vaccinations have plateaued. As of Monday, the 7-day average of daily cases stands at 526, according to the dashboard. That figure will likely grow as the Nebraska Dept. of Health and Human Services counts all the tests over the next week.

There are 448 Nebraskans hospitalized with COVID. That’s more than 11% of the state’s hospital beds, and the main reason Gov. Pete Ricketts brought the dashboard back. He did so

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Nebraska Restores its Covid Dashboard After a Rise in New Cases

By Veronica Tan 2 weeks ago

Tracking community transmission is at the heart of efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus, scientists say, and in most states the daily dashboards showing new cases have been a critical tool for public health officials trying to track the trajectory of the virus, which has killed 700,000 Americans.

Yet for three crucial months this summer, Nebraska did not report any county-level information to the public. State officials stopped sharing counts of new coronavirus cases by county with the public on June 30, just as the Delta variant began surging in the United States.

That was by design. Gov.

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PCPS launches COVID dashboard – The Southwest Times

By Veronica Tan 1 month ago

By DAVID GRAVELY

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As a part of their newly revamped website, Pulaski County Public Schools has added a COVID-19 dashboard to keep students, parents and citizens informed of COVID-19 cases within the school system.

The COVID-19 dashboard, which can be found at www.pcva.us/page/pcps-covid-dashboard, gives the most up-to-date information on positive COVID cases for each school and within the separate departments of the school system, as well as the historical data on how many cases were reported during the previous year at each location.

The total number of cases that have been reported within the school system since the start

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Eagle County COVID dashboard now shows case incidence by vaccination status, number of children infected

By Veronica Tan 1 month ago
The 7-day case rate by vaccination status graph, showing the rate of infections per 100,000 in Eagle County, as of Tuesday. The data will be updated weekly.
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Eagle County’s community COVID-19 monitoring dashboard now shows case incidence by vaccination status, as well as child case rates by age groups. The dashboard was updated to provide the info over the Labor Day weekend in Eagle County.

The dashboard also shows active hospitalizations — as of Sept. 6, there are three in Eagle County, down from nine on Aug. 31.

No new deaths have been added to the dashboard since

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ADPH relaunches school COVID dashboard after ‘particularly bad’ week

By Veronica Tan 2 months ago

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The Alabama Department of Public Health and State Department of Education relaunched a COVID-19 school dashboard today, which reports weekly positive cases among students and staff by district.

While the dashboard is still incomplete, with only one-third of school districts reporting numbers, it comes nearly two weeks before its announced debut of September 10 and will update every Thursday.

“It’s been a particularly bad week for Alabama schools and we’re seeing a huge increase in the number of cases for school-aged children,”

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RIT Safety Plan and COVID Dashboard updated

By Veronica Tan 2 months ago

RIT has updated its Safety Plan, which is designed to protect the health and safety of all individuals on campus. In addition, the COVID-19 dashboard has been reset to reflect the start of fall semester. RIT’s COVID-19 dashboard is a source of information for our university community to remain updated on the most accurate data related to campus during the pandemic.

Some of the changes in the Safety Plan include updates for campus visitors. All visitors, contractors, and temporary employees (those hired through a temporary employment agency) are expected to be fully vaccinated before coming onto campus. If not fully

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VDH unveils dashboard to show results of COVID cases by vaccination status

By Veronica Tan 3 months ago

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ/VDH Release) – The Virginia Department of Health COVID-19 in Virginia dashboards now include information on the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status. They also include data to track COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

Click here to see the new vaccination status dashboard. It is scheduled to be updated each Friday.

Vaccine breakthrough means someone who is fully vaccinated develops COVID-19, according to VDH.

“Over 99% of COVID-19 cases in Virginia have occurred in people who were not fully vaccinated. I applaud those who have chosen to protect themselves and the community

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Maharashtra: To prepare for third wave, dashboard for Covid updates | Mumbai News

By Veronica Tan 4 months ago
MUMBAI: In a bid to prepare for the third wave, Maharashtra government is working on a dashboard that will give real-time updates about Covid cases, availability of beds, medicines and oxygen consumption and use across the state.
Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray who reviewed gaps in health infrastructure in the wake of the third wave, said this dashboard should be one of the best in the country, and will help plan resources for each district.
Health minister Rajesh Tope sought an increase in budget so that projects can be completed and vacancies can be filled. As per Planning Commission recommendations, the
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UK Covid dashboard showing ‘zero deaths’ but also flashing warning signals | Coronavirus

By Veronica Tan 5 months ago

For those who are urging the government to push ahead with easing of lockdown restrictions later this month, Tuesday’s announcement of ‘zero deaths’ in the UK will be cited as further proof of the necessity to end the delay.

Certainly, the country has come a long way since the new year Covid surge, when the daily number of infections reached a peak of more than 68,000, and the number of people in hospital would later rise to almost 40,000. Daily death tolls of more than 1,000 were common during the bleakest weeks of winter.

The vaccination programme, perhaps the only

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Washington state including race and ethnicity vaccination data in COVID dashboard

By Veronica Tan 6 months ago

Matthew Kincanon

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Alessandra Tarantino

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) announced they are publishing race and ethnicity vaccination data on their COVID-19 data dashboard to help counties address inequities.

The county-level data were first released in a report on April 23 and include a race and ethnicity breakdown for people with at least one vaccine dose and people who are fully vaccinated.

For comparison purposes, the dashboard provides each county’s population distribution by race and ethnicity, including one set

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