Tag: United States*
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Racial Disparities in COVID-19
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M105 Creator: Diana Rodriquez ’22 Public Health With the outbreak of Covid-19, immediate hot zones began to appear that correlated with lower socio-economic status, attuned to minority populations. It fueled anger and shock; however this is not the first time nor will it be the last that diseases continue to ravage such…
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United States COVID Mask Mandates by State and Date
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M104 Creator: Lillian Hutton ’22 International Relations & History This map depicts whether a state has mandated masks throughout the entire state and the date of that order. As of November 2020, most states have some sort of requirement for masks, but many still do not have statewide mandates. In states where…
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Deaths by Spanish Flu (1918) and COVID-19 (2020) in Brazil
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M103 Creator: Jade Seguchi ’22 International Relations & Business The deadly H1N1 influenza virus reached Brazil when in its second wave, in September 1918. The lack of response, the spread of misleading information and manipulation of statistics only worsened its impact in the country, resulting in over 35,000 deaths. Remarkably, the current…
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Mask Mandates for COVID and Spanish Flu
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M102 Creator: Alexi Bostley ’22 Public Health Politics and presidency play a huge role in Americans’ response to an infectious disease outbreak. This map shows the relationship between each state’s political party affiliation and the presence of a mask mandate for Covid-19, as of August 2020. The Republican states are shown in…
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COVID and Spanish Flu Containment
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M101 Creator: Brenda Mpore Rusaro ’22 Brain & Cognitive Sciences Considering all the several major pandemics that have happened over the last 100 years, one of the worst epidemics was the 1918 Spanish Flu followed by COVID-19 that have killed thousands of people around the world. This map focuses on the initiatives…
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Smallpox and the Cold War
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M100 Creator: Yuan Shang ’21 Health, Behavior & Society and Brain & Cognitive Science Smallpox is a fatal contagious disease caused by Variola major/minor viruses and spread through person-to-person contact and saliva droplets in an infected person’s breath. In the 20th Century alone, more than 300 million people died of Smallpox. Only…
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Effect of Government Response on Covid-19 Infections and Deaths in Germany and the United States
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M099 Creator: Gina Romanazzi ’22 Digital Media Studies & Music These two sets of maps show the development of Covid-19 infections and deaths across a timespan of seven months in two countries, the United States and Germany, respectively. For the purpose of direct comparison, numbers of infections and deaths are set in…
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Disease and Economy
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M098 Creator: Muhammed El-Sayed ’22 Electrical and Computer Engineering A pandemic often inspires strong regulatory action in response, and COVID-19 was no different. Yet, as the pandemic spread, it was commonplace for governing bodies to decrease safety precautions as a result of their economic impact. This study aims to analyze the validity…
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Spanish Influenza (1918) in U.S. Prisons
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M097 Creator: Christina Krewson ’21 Health, Behavior & Society and Environmental Studies The spread of COVID-19 among incarcerated populations has been shocking and horrifying: prisons have been labeled as “coronavirus hotbeds” since spring of 2020, but despite more stringent protocols, COVID-19 rates are still high in prisons. This map demonstrates the high…
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The Transcontinental Railroad in American Native Land
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M093 Creator: Elias Neuman-Donihue ’22 Computer Science In 1862, President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, paving the way for a railroad spanning from Nebraska to California and connecting the U.S’s holdings on either side of the Great Plains region. At the time of the Act, the United States was composed of…