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How is wildfire smoke changing your daily life?
NPR’s California Newsroom is collaborating with MuckRock and Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation to investigate how wildfires affect air quality across the country. If the smoke from wildfires is damaging your health, disrupting your daily routine or forcing you to consider moving elsewhere, we want to hear from you.
Chicago’s air pollution hotspots: New sensor network reveals neighborhood air quality disparities
Chicago’s air pollution hotspots: New sensor network reveals neighborhood air quality disparities
What we did to analyze Chicago’s air pollution hotspots
What we did to analyze Chicago’s air pollution hotspots.
MuckRock and the Documenting COVID-19 project are releasing new searchable CDC death data at the county level
We signed a data-use agreement with the CDC to gain access to their mortality API portal so we could gather more data, more often and provide it for others to use. To help make sense of it, you’ll find other information in the data repository, including excess mortality numbers modeled by demographers at Boston University, vaccination rates by state and a Department of Justice survey released in December detailing all medical examiner and coroner offices in the U.S.
18,849 more Chicagoans have died over the past two years than what would be expected. It goes beyond COVID. Here’s what happened, and what the future may look like.
In a normal, pre-pandemic year in Cook County, between 40,000 and 42,000 people die. But in 2020, that figure topped 52,000. In 2021 it remained high, at more than 47,000. It will likely stay unusually high in 2022.