April 27, 2020

An Interactive Online Dashboard for Tracking COVID-19 in U.S. Counties, Cities, and States in Real Time

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice

• Wissel et al have created an interactive online dashboard for tracking COVID-19 outbreaks in U.S. counties, cities, and states in real time. It uses R Shiny application to aggregate data from multiple resources that track COVID-19 and visualizes them through an interactive, online dashboard. It displays COVID-19 data from every county and 188 metropolitan areas in the U.S. The web resource, called the COVID-19 Watcher, can be accessed at https://covid19watcher.research.cchmc.org/

Wessel et al. (April 25 2020). An Interactive Online Dashboard for Tracking COVID-19 in U.S. Counties, Cities, and States in Real Time. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association print downloaded April 27 from:  https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa071