A team at Morehouse University collaborated with a group of fellows from Google.org and various public health advocates.
Chelsea Seabron, manager of Google.org, said in astatement.
They can also break the numbers down by county or state, and compare one condition with another.
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To create the database, the team pooled information from various data sources.
Dunlap says the various existing COVID-19 tracking projects provide crucial information on the pandemic.
The tool is available online for anyone to access.
But he hopes it can help even the average person wanting to compare outcomes in their county to others.
What This Means For You
The Health Equity Tracker is available for public use.
According to the Health Equity Tracker site, 38% of cases reported unknown race or ethnicity.
Some states havent provided sufficient data disaggregated by race and ethnicity to the CDC.
Knowing where these blind spots are is valuable.
Common standards for reporting race and ethnicity are set by theNational Institutes of Health Office of Management and Budget.
They outline five race categories and two ethnicity categories.
Still, not all states use the same standards for determining racial and ethnic groups.
Its a piecemeal processfederal agencies like the CDC depend on states to collect and report data.
Dunlap says that filling in the gaps in information is just as important as understanding what that data represents.
Being able to highlight those data gaps is a story in and of itself.
Dunlap describes the Health Equity Tracker as a living project.
The project leaders hope to receive feedback so they can include data that users want to see.
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