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Fox 19: UC students create COVID-19 Watcher

June 4, 2020

The COVID-19 Watcher, developed by two University of Cincinnati students, displays data from every county and 188 metropolitan areas in the country. Features of the dashboard include ranking of the worst affected areas and auto-generating plots that depict temporal changes in testing capacity, cases and deaths. The COVID-19 Watcher can provide the public with real-time updates of outbreaks in their area. The app pulls in data from the New York Times, which has been tracking COVID-19 cases since January, and merges it with sources from the U.S. Census to map cases for each county and metropolitan area.

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USA Today: Vitamin D and COVID-19

June 15, 2020

Tamara Ward, a specialist in oncology nutrition at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, discusses nutrition and the immune system in this USA Today article.

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WCPO: Inside the fight to declare racism a public health crisis in Ohio

June 26, 2020

Ohio Senate committee considers a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis. Chris Lewis, MD, vice provost of academic affairs at the University of Cincinnati and associate professor of family medicine, discusses social determinants of health and the impact racial inequalities have on public health.