The COVID Tracking Project was cited in more than 1,000 academic papers, including major medical journals like The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, and JAMA.
We received awards for our work from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Sigma Awards, and the NYU Journalism Online Awards.
Our data was used by two presidential administrationsand an array of federal agencies, including the CDC, HHS, and FDA.
Federal lawmakers used our data in at least 11 letters demanding answers on the pandemic response from government leaders and commercial labs.
And our data was cited in over 7,700 news stories in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Vox, ProPublica, and many more.