NEWS RELEASE
BOULDER COUNTY
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Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) is inviting the community to explore recently launched upgrades to the county’s COVID Data webpage.
To ensure that the public has access to up-to-date information about COVID-19 transmission, case positivity, and more, BCPH recently integrated live dashboards on the county’s COVID Data webpage with information that is updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
In May 2020, BCPH launched the COVID Data page as a hub for access to important information and statistics regarding the spread of COVID-19 in Boulder County.
The page was previously updated weekly on Mondays and Thursdays to share graphs with information including the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the county, the number of deaths among Boulder County residents who tested positive or were considered “probable” for COVID-19, trends in incidences of COVID-19 and community positivity rates.
To improve ease of access and interaction capabilities with the important information hosted on this page, BCPH integrated live updates for each graph three times a week which will improve user experience.
While the categories of data displayed on the page remain the same, the new platform allows visitors more opportunities to interact with the data. For example, when hovering over each dashboard, users can now see specific data for each date.
Created with the user experience in mind, the improved webpage and revitalized dashboards were designed to offer the most updated information available for the ultimate user-friendly experience.
In this update, BCPH removed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) case rate per 100,000 of the population from the updated webpage due to a difference in methodology for calculating rates.
Recognizing that a backlog of case data from the state resulting from the omicron surge in January and February 2022 may impact how daily rates are reflected, BCPH intentionally adapted calculations to ensure that these cases were appropriately assigned to the correct dates. This science-based decision helps us provide the public with the most up-to-date and accurate picture of the disease in Boulder County by using local data.
Boulder County COVID Data can be viewed here: https://boco.org/covid-19-data.
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