Current Situation

As with any emergency, information related to the impacts of COVID-19 is constantly changing. This section includes links to official information and other credible sources.

City of Boston

• The BPHC COVID-19 page provides:
  • Boston's latest numbers
    
  • BPHC's COVID-19 Weekly Reports
    
• The Boston COVID-19 Dashboard provides citywide and neighborhood data related to testing and cases, and core metrics critical to inform response leadership.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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  The COVID-19 Response Reporting page provides:
  • COVID-19 Daily Dashboard
  • COVID-19 Weekly Public Health Report
  • Links to EOHHS reporting on state-operated facilities and congregate care sites
• Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) positive cases tracker

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• CDC COVID Data Tracker
• Information on Variants:
  • General information from CDC
  • Interactive map: US COVID-19 Cases Caused by Variants

Additional Sources for Situational Awareness

Direct Impacts of COVID-19:

• MWRA/Wastewater COVID-19 Tracking: This graph depicts wastewater data from the
  Massachusetts Water Resource Authority, resulting from MWRA's pilot study to track wastewater at the Deer Island Treatment Plant for indicators of COVID-19 infection. It is important to note that this is a pilot of an evolving science.
• Interactive map from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine's Coronavirus Resource Center
• Interactive map from COVID Exit Strategy: This is the source that Massachusetts uses as basis for state travel policy. The interactive map allows you to look at essential indicators by state, such as cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

Indirect Impacts of COVID-19:

• Cross-cutting information on various inequitable impacts:
  • Crisis indicators, from the Boston Indicators, is updated weekly and includes analysis of:
    • Housing
    • Economic impacts
    • Social assistance
    • Mobility patterns
      
  • COVID-19 Vulnerability Mapping: This tool uses data from the Center for Disease Control, the US Census Bureau and the Department of Homeland Security to map a combination of infrastructure, health and demographic factors that have been identified by the CDC as influencing vulnerability to Covid-19.
  • The COVID-19 Health Inequities in Cities project dashboard is a powerful data tool that enables visualizations of COVID-19 related outcomes and inequities in COVID-19 related outcomes over time and across BCHC cities.
  • The COVID-19 Community Impact Survey findings represent responses from 35,000 Massachusetts residents. The survey sought to understand the specific needs of populations that have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
    
• Employment / Economic impact
  • Urban Institute's Where Low-Income Jobs Are Being Lost to COVID-19 is updated monthly and estimates how many low-income jobs have been lost by workers living in each census tract
  • Profile of Unemployed Workers in Massachusetts (COVID Community Data Lab, October 29, 2020)
  • Eviction Data from Mass Trial Court
• Mobility
  • Google Community Mobility Reports
  • CDC mobility data
• Food Access
  • Greater Boston Food Bank's Gaps in Food Access Report

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