Covering COVID-19

The story of the coronavirus unfurled in ways no one could fully foresee. In the chaos of the pandemic’s early months, journalists struggled to capture the sudden and sweeping disruption to nearly every aspect of life on Earth.

To bolster coverage of COVID, Big Local News partnered with news organizations around the world to gather, analyze and publish data, with a focus on the uneven impact on disadvantaged communities.

Data

AHA: Staffing

Tallies from a 2018 American Hospital Association survey

COVIDtracking: Data Archive

A final version of project’s files

Johns Hopkins: Daily reports

The latest snapshot of all daily reports

Johns Hopkins: Time series

Cases, deaths and recovereries over time

New York Times: Case counts

Time series data for cases and deaths down to the county level

Paycheck Protection Program

Trillions of dollars of loans broken into state-level files

Twitter: Official accounts

Tweet from public officials and public health officers

USA Facts: Case counts

County-level data on confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths

Tools

COVID Case Mapper

Easily embed up-to-date maps of coronavirus data on your site

Big Local News partners

Associated Press

COVID-19 Reporting Grantees

OpenNews

Big Local News contributors

Cheryl Phillips

Dilcia Mercedes

Eric Sagara

Justin Mayo

Serdar Tumgoren

Publications

Date	Publisher	Headline
2022-04-11	Big Local News	How journalists supported by Big Local News covered COVID’s costly toll on the disadvantaged
2022-03-03	Muckrock	How you can use eviction data and public records to report on housing during the pandemic
2021-12-26	Flint Beat	When race data goes missing, how do health leaders combat COVID racial disparities in Flint?
2021-10-16	El Periodico	Las muertes por coronavirus fuera de los hospitales de El Salvador
2021-09-21	Salud Con Lupa	El Otro Perú
2021-08-23	InfoAmazonia	Social and environmental crises come together in Mato Grosso in a year of record burning in the Pantanal
2021-07-22	Muckrock	How the Indigenous Investigative Collective use public records to show dire gaps in COVID-19 data access
2021-06-28	mediatractnet	COVID-19 Paradox: Nigerian households suffer food price surges, amidst dwindling income
2021-06-08	High Country News	A broken system: The number of Indigenous people who died from coronavirus may never be known
2021-06-06	RISE Project	“The Syringe” Deal
2021-06-06	RISE Project	Nine Planes with Masks
2021-05-29	Missoulian	Wide disparity in COVID relief to tribes
2021-05-01	Reveal	Rampant racial disparities plagued how billions of dollars in PPP loans were distributed in the U.S.
2021-05-01	Reveal	PPP Reporting Network
2021-03-15	Local News Matters	Job layoffs spur housing struggles in state even as evictions remain on hold
2020-10-23	Source	How California newsrooms teamed up to gather pandemic data
2020-10-15	Source	The conversations local newsrooms should be having about COVID-19 coverage
2020-09-10	Los Angeles Times	The Times is teaming up with other California newsrooms to track COVID-19
2020-09-08	Public Radio Tulsa	Tulsa Landlords Offered Rent To Not Evict, But Few Took The Deal
2020-09-05	Associated Press	Georgia renters get few protections, landlords seek to evict
2020-09-05	Associated Press	Massachusetts’ protections weren’t enough to stop evictions
2020-09-02	Associated Press	Confusion over eviction ban led to selective enforcement
2020-09-01	Source	COVID-19 story recipe: A dashboard with at-risk health indicators
2020-05-08	Source	COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing disparate impact based on race, poverty, and vulnerability in your area
2020-05-05	Source	A comparison of four major COVID-19 data sources
2020-04-29	Source	COVID-19 story recipe: Using AHA data to analyze hospital bed capacity
2020-04-24	Source	COVID-19 story recipe: Identifying communities at risk from the pandemic and its economic fallout
2020-04-23	Investigative Reporting Workshop	COVID-19 map offers state, county views
2020-04-21	Source	How to make sense of all the COVID-19 datasets right now
2020-04-17	Source	COVID-19 story recipe: How to see what stocks members of Congress are dumping (or buying)
2020-04-16	The Wrap	Stanford University, Google Create Coronavirus Maps for Journalists
2020-04-14	Techcrunch	Stanford and Google create an embeddable COVID-19 map for local journalists
2020-04-08	Monterey County Weekly	Introducing an interactive Covid-19 mapper for Monterey County and its neighbors.
2020-04-02	Source	COVID-19 story recipe: How to analyze your region’s hospital capacity
2020-03-16	Source	COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing nursing home data for infection-control problems