This data is sourced from The COVID Tracking Project, a site includes web scraping data from individual state health department agencies displaying information related to positive, negative, and pending tests across the United States.
Social vulnerability refers to the socioeconomic and demographic factors that affect the resilience of communities. Studies have shown that in disaster events the socially vulnerable are more likely to be adversely affected, i.e. they are less likely to recover and more likely to die. Effectively addressing social vulnerability decreases both human suffering and the economic loss related to providing social services and public assistance after a disaster. The development of a social vulnerability index (SVI) from 15 census variables at the census tract level was built by the CDC for use in emergency management.
