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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, USAFacts team members have worked diligently to provide Americans with local, up-to-date information about coronavirus in their area. USAFacts displays the data it collects in easy-to-understand formats that can be downloaded, shared, and used freely by the public.
The not-for-profit has led the way in providing and updating datasets of case and death numbers, vaccination rates, as well as supplementary resources to ensure the public is able to remain informed and educated. Additionally, USAFacts provides all data free to the public without license agreement limitations, empowering Americans to repurpose it for their own work.
The commitment to open and free data with no license restrictions has proven helpful to a wide variety of organizations, either through direct data use or through the data enrichment of other organizations. The Department of the Army, Federal Aviation Administration and several school districts, including public and private, have used USAFacts data to determine risk mitigation strategies and to support either keeping classes going in-person or to justify moving to virtual instruction.
USAFacts COVID-19 data page views totaled 7,956,302 in 2020 and grew to 17,870,586 in 2021. It continues with 3,356,239 thus far 2022 for a grand total of 29,183,127 page views. Given the number of daily downloads of USAFacts data and heavy web traffic, it is hard to quantify how many decisions were impacted by the availability of this data. What is clear is that, for at least a subgroup, the metrics helped them make informed risk-level decisions to mitigate the adverse effects of the pandemic on health and the economy as companies weighed disruption against the health of their stakeholders. This delivered on USAFacts’ primary goal using government data to inform important decisions.
Nomination Title: USAFacts Response to COVID-19
