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So, @HHSGov made a huge release today: facility-level hospitalization data going back to August.
It's probably the single most important data release that we've seen from the Federal government. Especially now, when hospitals are under such pressure.
https://healthdata.gov/hhs-publishes-covid-19-hospital-facility-level-data
It's probably the single most important data release that we've seen from the Federal government. Especially now, when hospitals are under such pressure.
https://healthdata.gov/hhs-publishes-covid-19-hospital-facility-level-data
We can do immediately useful things with this data—and we'll have interactive visualizations of it very soon.
As an example, here are maps of hospitals with the percentage of staffed beds occupied by people with COVID.
Dark red is over 25%+.
As an example, here are maps of hospitals with the percentage of staffed beds occupied by people with COVID.
Dark red is over 25%+.
Or, take these maps. They show hospitals with the percentage of ICU beds occupied by people with COVID (for the weeks of August 7 and November 27).
In these, dark red is over 55 percent...
In these, dark red is over 55 percent...
This is a big complex dataset generated by 1000s of hospitals, states, the Feds. There's a lot to know about it before you try to use it.
We're working on some @COVID19Tracking analysis, but
great data journalists and researchers put together a FAQ: https://github.com/CareSet/COVID_Hospital_PUF?src=tw
We're working on some @COVID19Tracking analysis, but
great data journalists and researchers put together a FAQ: https://github.com/CareSet/COVID_Hospital_PUF?src=tw
We know something of the process that was required to bring this dataset to the public. And let me say that we're proud to be one of the outside groups that has pressed for more and better data alongside @fredtrotter, @ashish_p, @pkmandic, @ZachInDC, @rypan.
But of course, we could not get this data made public without civil servants pushing inside the government. That's @ThePatientsSide, @khoney, Kevin Duvall, Perryn Ashmore, and countless others who I haven't had the chance to harangue.
Over the coming days, we expect to keep hitting on this data with our hammers. We don't expect it to be perfect, but we do hope that it keeps getting better, as we've shown has happened with other Federal hospital data.
https://covidtracking.com/blog/what-weve-learned-about-the-hhs-hospitalization-data
https://covidtracking.com/blog/what-weve-learned-about-the-hhs-hospitalization-data
In the meantime, you can see what @pkmandic's team has put together aggregating up to the county level: https://twitter.com/rypan/status/1336102049650331648?s=20
If you think about what's in this dataset: it's the basis for a dashboard that shows where hospitals are being overrun by COVID-19 spikes.
We've never had that before. And we desperately need it now.
We've never had that before. And we desperately need it now.
