United States

Hospitalization information do use a little twinkle of hope today: Although existing hospitalizations are up week over week, a small flattening in the numbers over the previous 5 days recommends the possibility of a plateau—albeit a…

As the nationwide media assembled on Georgia prior to the state’s Senate overflows on Tuesday, COVID-19 hospitalizations there continued to increase dramatically and are now the 5th worst in the nation, changed for population. According to…

The resulting database is a patchwork, built from the individual components that each state’s data systems capture and from the numbers that local political leaders allow to be published. Fusing together 56 state and territorial data sets…

Across US regions, we see sharply differing hospitalization figures. COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to drop across the entire Midwest. In the West, hospitalizations have been declining across the Mountain West since December 24, but…

The United States Federal Trade Commission has ordered nine major social media and streaming services to hand over information about how they collect and use personal data from their users. The platforms concerned include Facebook,…

At the national level, we’re seeing mixed indicators: Reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have declined very slightly since last Wednesday, while reported tests declined a little bit more. The United States now has more than…