The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

The Northeast Colorado Health Department recently rolled out a new COVID-19 dashboard. This new dashboard has been in the works for several months. The COVID-19 dashboard has been developed by an internal team at NCHD, consisting of a data analyst, epidemiologist and an external consultant.

The goal of the COVID-19 dashboard project is to make COVID-19 data as easy to access as possible. NCHD built the dashboard to ensure our residents can quickly find out the most current information about the impact of COVID-19 in local communities.

The COVID-19 dashboard has two interactive pages; the first page will display data on COVID-19 daily case counts, related hospitalization and death data for our six-county health district including Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma counties. All graphs can be filtered to view newly reported cases, cumulative cases and number of cases per 100,000 people. Cases per 100k provides a standardized number that can be used to compare cases among different populations. Since our county populations are much less than 100,000 people, the rates will always be inflated when comparing against larger populations.

The second page has an interactive county map feature which displays detailed case counts, active cases and testing data for individual counties by different time frame of either the last seven days, 14 days, 30 days or since onset of COVID-19. There is also a filter option to exclude incarcerated cases or view case data for the total county population. All the data metrics on this page align with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment COVID-19 Dial dashboard.

The new COVID-19 dashboard is scheduled went live on Sept. 21 and will replace the COVID-19 daily Summary Report on our website. The data will be updated Monday through Friday around 4 p.m. The data can be viewed on all types of devices, including computers and smartphones.

If someone finds any discrepancies or has a comment to share, there is a feedback button and it will take you to a form that you can fill out and share your thoughts with us.

To find the dashboard go to http://www.nchd.org. Hover over the COVID-19 button found in the top menu and click COVID-19 data.