COVID Tracking Project

COVID Tracking Project
Type of site
Collaborative volunteer-run effort
Created byAlexis Madrigal
EditorErin Kissane
Key peopleRobinson Meyer, Jeff Hammerbacher[1]
URLcovidtracking.com Edit this at Wikidata
LaunchedMarch 7, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-03-07)
Current statusInactive
Content license
Data and website content are published under a CC BY 4.0 license.

The COVID Tracking Project was a collaborative volunteer-run effort to track the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. It maintained a daily-updated dataset of state-level information related to the outbreak, including counts of the number of cases, tests, hospitalizations, and deaths, the racial and ethnic demographic breakdowns of cases and deaths, and cases and deaths in long-term care facilities.[2][3][4]

Data was updated by hand from state health department webpages, press conferences, and outreach to state health officials.[5][6] The project reported data from all states, the District of Columbia, and five US territories.

  1. ^ "About Us".
  2. ^ Jin, Beatrice (March 16, 2020). "How many coronavirus cases have been found in each U.S. state". Politico. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Sohn, Emily (March 24, 2020). "How the COVID Tracking Project fills the public health data gap". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  4. ^ "The Long-Term Care COVID Tracker | Technical Resources". ASPR TRACIE. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Analysis & updates | How We Entered COVID-19 Testing and Outcomes Data Every Day for a Year". The COVID Tracking Project. Retrieved August 7, 2021.