Every victim of covid-19 had their own joys and hopes for the future. Leslie Shapiro and I marked one million deaths in America from covid-19 by writing about one person who died each week of the...
In the most comprehensive tracker of its kind, Reuters provided key information to the vaccine rollout and eligibility around the world. The landing page gives key information, allowing the reader...
Why do new variants keep appearing? And why are we at risk of new outbreaks? Dive into the heart of SARS-CoV-2 and discover the surprising role of the spike protein.
The Omicron variant was...
This story of Hong Kong mass Covid test results starts with a set of very simple yet extreme numbers: A city of 7.5 million population, one fourth of them took the test and only 42 cases were...
Which communities are the most vulnerable to COVID-19 and why? Where and how should we target resources or interventions to best mitigate the impacts of the pandemic? The Surgo Ventures Precision...
I am a Japanese data visualization designer and researcher. This entry has been made by me as a member of public. I visualized the COVID-19 situation, which was not reported in detail in the...
Faced with the health crisis of 2020, most countries have chosen to confine themselves, putting a sudden halt to most of their economic activities. What was the impact on the climate? Through the...
Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed lifestyles, personal habits, and created a deep chasm between “before” and “after.” We were interested in exploring how the pandemic affected people’s...
In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, a major contagious outbreak occurred, forcing the authorities to take restrictive measures for the population, such as the closure of schools, bars, and...
They were the first ones on the dance floor, the first in their families to immigrate to the United States, the first to lend a helping hand or words of support. Grandma, Pop Pop, Butterfly, Coach,...
During the quarantine, I noticed that my sleeping patterns changed (and not for the better). I tracked my sleep using the Calm app with its sleep log feature in order to investigate why I had...
As COVID-19 began to spread in the U.S. in March 2020, Trump administration officials estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Americans might die. A worst-case scenario, they said, meant between 1.6 million...
In early 2020, BBC Science Focus magazine approached me to produce an infographic that explored various aspects of the Covid-19 outbreak - including an overview, symptoms and a comparison to other...
The project focuses the research on Change.org, one of the most popular platforms used to publish online petitions, thus performing slacktivism. Starting with a comprehensive analysis of the main...
Among the many ways COVID-19 reshaped our lives, one of its most enduring effects may be changes to the way we use and move through public spaces. At the height of the pandemic, parks, restaurants,...
The Covid-19 Dashboard is the official source of information by the Federal Office of Public Health about the epidemiological situation in Switzerland. The platform provides a diverse audience with...
In the early stages of the covid-19 pandemic, there were confusing and conflicting messages about how best to keep transmission rates down in public places. Should we wash our hands? Wear a mask,...
This piece was inspired by the many friends, acquaintances, and colleagues I have spoken to over the last 12-18 months about the safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. As an Epidemiologist at...
During the confinement in Spain, between March and May, 53 consecutive days, we produced a daily visual column that was published in Diario de Navarra, the leading newspaper in the community. It...
A semi-realtime simulation of the number of COVID cases reported.
This visualization was created before there were vaccines, and in the news you would only hear big numbers: "800 new cases...
Many drugs have been evaluated for treating patients with covid-19 at different disease severities. The resulting research has been published in enormous quantities at unprecedented speeds. To make...
In a pandemic, it's critical that the community understands the nature of the threat to make informed decisions. But too often, science communication is impenetrable.
In this piece we combined...
This article, published on the anniversary of Australia’s first documented cases of COVID-19, uses a national dataset of every confirmed coronavirus case (a dataset built by our team) to tell the...
This visualization presents a nationwide rising tide of anti-Asian bias during the height of the pandemic. The data are based on a national report published by Stop AAPI Hate, an alliance that has...
Communication is critical during a public health emergency like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But misinformation and rumors about COVID-19 and COVID vaccines, undermine efforts to keep people...
When numbers grow so large as to be incomprehensible, those numbers become easy to ignore.
As a visual artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg felt compelled to physically manifest the mounting death...
London Under the Microscope is a short data-driven film, commissioned by the Museum of London, which narrates through visuals and sound the first year of the pandemic.
As the world was reshaped by...
Corona virus mutants are regularly popping up, but the common media reports did not give me a feeling for how dynamic the variant evolution really is. Only when I discovered a scientific preprint...
Design Brief: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Northeastern University launched the #protectthepack campaign, which used a variety of media to keep students, faculty, and staff informed, connected,...