An interactive online dashboard for tracking COVID-19 in U.S. counties, cities, and states in real time

The study sought to create an online resource that informs the public of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks in their area. This R Shiny application aggregates data from multiple resources that track COVID-19 and visualizes them through an interactive, online dashboard. The Web resource, c...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Vol. 27; no. 7; p. 1121
Main Authors: Wissel, Benjamin D, Van Camp, P J, Kouril, Michal, Weis, Chad, Glauser, Tracy A, White, Peter S, Kohane, Isaac S, Dexheimer, Judith W
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England 01.07.2020
Subjects:
Betacoronavirus
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S
Cities
Consumer Health Informatics
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - mortality
COVID-19
Disease Outbreaks - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - mortality
SARS-CoV-2
Software
United States - epidemiology
User-Computer Interface
United States
Cities
COVID-19
health informatics
data visualization
ISSN:1527-974X, 1527-974X
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Summary:The study sought to create an online resource that informs the public of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks in their area. This R Shiny application aggregates data from multiple resources that track COVID-19 and visualizes them through an interactive, online dashboard. The Web resource, called the COVID-19 Watcher, can be accessed online (https://covid19watcher.research.cchmc.org/). It displays COVID-19 data from every county and 188 metropolitan areas in the United States. Features include rankings of the worst-affected areas and auto-generating plots that depict temporal changes in testing capacity, cases, and deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not publish COVID-19 data for local municipalities, so it is critical that academic resources fill this void so the public can stay informed. The data used have limitations and likely underestimate the scale of the outbreak. The COVID-19 Watcher can provide the public with real-time updates of outbreaks in their area.
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ISSN:1527-974X
1527-974X
DOI:10.1093/jamia/ocaa071