New enhanced atlas offers improved data and analytics capabilities to understand communities. Today, Chicago community members, organizations, researchers, and the general public will be able to access data across Chicago’s 77 community areas, 58 ZIP codes, and 800 Census tracts using the new Chicago Health Atlas. The new health atlas is innovative in providing a platform...

How our communities are built has a lasting impact on community health. See how here. We are constantly updating Metopio’s curated data sets to offer opportunities to understand how the places and populations you care about are impacted. This analysis tackles air quality. Science Magazine recently published a study that found that higher levels of the tiny,...

With vaccinations rolling out across the country, how do you contextualize the data? Carefully. The pandemic brought to light the team of players necessary to make public health work. Unfortunately, the infrastructure to support that team is fractured – and data collection demonstrates this perfectly. After twelve months of ever-changing policy and evolving pandemic response,...

Those who can get registered online for the limited doses, and quickly. COVID-19 vaccines continue to be distributed across the country and allocated to individuals in phases. The Biden Administration has set a goal of 100 million vaccines in the first 100 days. Individual states have set up programs to administer the vaccines, and each...

200 of the topics you use frequently now updated to 2019. That’s 4 million new data points covering 200 topics. The American Community Survey (ACS) data just released for 2019 is now in Metopio. This means we now offer 15 years of ACS data on most of our curated ACS topics so you can see how things...

What happens if you have to work 95 hours a week at minimum wage to afford a place to live? Even before COVID-19, housing affordability was a challenge. A national moratorium on evictions was extended until March 31, 2021. Even with those protections, over 12 million Americans owe at least $5,000 in back rent according...

In places where workers have been hardest hit by the coronavirus. Understanding the secondary effects of COVID-19—from job loss to evictions to an increased need for social services—is critical for employers, policymakers and community-based organizations. This analysis examines food insecurity. To start, we need modeled data to predict food insecurity based on projected changes to unemployment...

With so much at stake, what do we need to acknowledge with the COVID-19 data set? At Metopio, we are dedicated to data hygiene. After nearly eight months of regularly updating cases, case rates, testing rates, positive tests and case fatality rates, we wanted to assess where there are gaps and share how you should think about...

Over a dozen new infectious disease topics from 2000-2018 help you explore their correlation to COVID and more. Metopio recently added new topics to our Data Dictionary from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)! We now have updated and added data including: Chlamydia prevalence CMYGonorrhea prevalence GRRSyphilis case rate SYPTuberculosis prevalence TBSHIV prevalence HIVNew HIV Diagnoses HIDLinkage to HIV care LHVReceipt...

Harvard University identified a connection between the COVID-19 death rate and air quality. What other respiratory factors should be considered? We, at Metopio, want you to be safe and healthy. While communities are implementing the necessary precautions to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, there are ways this pandemic highlights existing health challenges such as...