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Reaching 1 million deaths
The New York Times narrated the path to one million Covid deaths in the United States. They start with one million dots, each one representing a death. As you read, the dots arrange into trends and...
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Behind the million
Sergio Peçanha and Yan Wu, for The Washington Post, used a combination unit chart with individual icons to represent the scale and weight of the near million Covid deaths in the United States. Compare...
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Lives cut short by Covid
Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro, for The Washington Post, used the stories of 114 individuals to show weekly Covid deaths. Each story is “cut short”, making the length of each fragment match counts...
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Final texts
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer, for NYT Opinion, approached the one-million mark for Covid deaths with text messages. The piece starts on February 29, 2020, when the first person died because of Covid. The...
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Less rich Covid billionaires
With Covid came sudden shifts in daily life and work, which gave rise to certain companies that were able to fill specific needs. Some individuals’ net worth increased many times over. But as things...
View ArticleLife cycle of coronavirus at the molecular level
From Maastricht University: What happens if a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus enters your lung? This molecular animation visualises how the virus particle can take over the host cell and turns it into a virus...
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Inferring the scale of China’s Covid spike through obituaries
China reported 80,000 Covid deaths since lifting restrictions in early December 2022. But researchers believe the count is much higher, because the figure only includes hospital deaths and the country...
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Cyanotype to represent grief
Marking the third anniversary of the first Covid deaths in the United States, Ally J. Levine, for Reuters, used cyanotype to talk about the grief of those who lost a loved one. Levine explained the...
View ArticleNYT switches to CDC data for their Covid dashboard
After three years, The New York Times is switching away from local data collection to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: As the virus began to spread rapidly in the United States...
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Data portrait of a life with long Covid
Giorgia Lupi, known for using data visualization to connect real life and numbers, has been dealing with long Covid for the past three years. In a visual guest essay for NYT Opinion, Lupi describes her...
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