Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.

Background With the acceleration of globalisation and the increasing frequency of international exchanges, the risk of cross-border transmission of emerging respiratory infectious diseases (ERIDs) has ...

Neither the VDH nor the CDC are any longer reporting COVID fatalities or total cases in Vermont or in the US. The hospitalizations dataset contains day-level data reported from all Vermont hospitals ...

Intervention in Health Misinformation Using Large Language Models for Automated Detection, Thematic Analysis, and Inoculation: Case Study on COVID-19 J Med Internet Res 2026;28:e75500 ...

The specter of covid-19 continues to loom large over the United States. Research out today finds that the viral illness is still sickening and killing a substantial number of Americans every year.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has transitioned into an endemic phase with heterogeneous resurgences. Despite widespread vaccination and public health measures, the interplay of viral evolution, ...

In today’s data-rich environment, business are always looking for a way to capitalize on available data for new insights and increased efficiencies. Given the escalating volumes of data and the ...

When Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) recently asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week how many people died in the United States from COVID-19, Kennedy said “nobody knows” because of “data chaos” at the Centers ...

Data captured from adult populations indicated BNT162b2 XBB.1.5-adapted and mRNA-1273 XBB.1.5-adapted monovalent vaccines conferred similar protection against XBB-related hospitalization, infection, ...

If you’d like an LLM to act more like a partner than a tool, Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that also works in both R and Python. Databot is designed to analyze data you’ve ...

Objectives To systematically compare the effects of various antithrombotic strategies on prespecified outcomes including 28-day all-cause mortality (primary outcome), major thrombotic events and major ...

Single-cell technologies have revolutionized our ability to interrogate biological systems at unprecedented resolution, revealing complex cellular heterogeneity and dynamic processes that underlie ...