Stay Up to Date on Hospital Trends in Your County After significant work by our colleagues at the North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council (NCTTRAC), hospital data is again available on the North Texas COVID Data Viewer! You may recall that changes to the daily hospital submissions initiated by the US Centers for Disease…
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Recent changes to federal hospital reporting requirements have changed how we receive data. As you know, the federal government recently changed reporting requirements for COVID-related hospitalization data. While that change did not directly affect our data flow, subsequent changes have impacted our work process. The State of Texas has modified it’s EMResource data collection process…
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We’re pleased to release the second major revision to the North Texas COVID Data Viewer! Many of you have asked for more detailed information on hospitalization data. We’ve heard you, worked with our data partners, and made the following changes. Scope of the Data As you know, our hospital utilization data comes from the North…
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On May first, Texas began the first phase in the governor’s plan to reopen the economy. Due to the unprecedented nature of this pandemic, there is disagreement among experts on whether this is premature. Testing indicates that there is still an increase in the incidence of Covid-19 cases across the state, which means we have…
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On May first, Texas is scheduled to begin the first phase in the governor’s plan to reopen the economy. Due to the unprecedented nature of this pandemic, there is disagreement among experts on whether this is premature. The governor said he would be using data to determine whether to proceed to phase 2 or not, though which exact metrics will determine success, or a setback…
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The North Texas COVID Data Viewer launched today at https://urbanpolicyresearch.org/covid. The viewer is meant to be a tool to help policymakers and the public view near-real-time COVID data, enabling data-informed decisions on issues of policy and practice. The dashboard draws its data from the Johns Hopkins COVID tracking program, including information on infections and deaths.…
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What’s the difference between a report card and a dashboard?
