Special Edition Newsletter (#13)

Update (May 20, 2020): This post is part of a series providing publicly available maps, data, and insights to answer COVID-19 questions in your community. For more COVID-19 resources, go to PolicyMap Special Edition: COVID-19.

A Pathway to Rapidly Cutting COVID-19 Deaths Through a Risk-Based Vaccination Strategy

Researchers are working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, but any potential vaccine will at first be in limited supply. Who should we prioritize? New data from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in partnership with PolicyMap, identifies populations across the US at highest risk of death. The COVID-19 Mortality Risk Calculator and COVID-19 Risk Maps reveal individual and community risk levels.

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SPOTLIGHT

PolicyMap Contributes to Healthy and Equitable Community Investment

With the goal of moving toward a more equity-focused, data-informed, and community responsive approach to community investment, the Healthy and Equitable Community Investment (HECI) work group convened a group of stakeholders, including PolicyMap, to better understand existing tools and health equity measurement practices.

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In case you missed it

New Jersey Health Initiatives provides PolicyMap to ten community teams in the State of New Jersey to help them visualize, analyze and share housing, education, workforce and demographic data to inform their work.

Special Newsletter: Red Zones and Intergenerational Households at Risk for Severe COVID-19. As COVID-19 cases accelerate in many states across the country, intergenerational households face elevated risks of disease spread, requiring targeted outreach and testing services.