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The COVID Tracking Project will stop collecting data on March 7th

The COVID Tracking Project will stop collecting data on March 7th

“We began the work out of necessity and planned to do it for a couple of weeks at most, always in the expectation that the federal public health establishment would make our work obsolete,” co-founders Erin Kissane and Alexis Madrigal wrote. “We have seen persuasive evidence that the CDC and HHS are now both able and willing to take on the country’s massive deficits in public health data infrastructure and to offer the best available data and science communication in the interim.” 

One recent development the organization cites for its decision includes the recent restart of daily COVID-19 briefings. The CDC’s improved COVID Tracker, which now includes data on county-level testing, is another positive move forward, according to the organization. It’s hard to overstate the significance of the COVID Tracking Project. Not only was it widely cited by academics, the media and politicians, it also helped inform policy, with the group’s data making its way into proposed House legislation.

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