Wash U-Based ‘Focus-19’ Initiative Puts 211 Call Data To Good Use
St. Louis on the Air · St. Louis Public Radio
August 27, 202015m 8s
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Show Notes
For evidence of the coronavirus pandemic’s wide-ranging toll on society, monthly jobs reports and quarterly GDP numbers are go-to sources of information — and highly credible ones. But for a more granular, real-time sense of the extent of community needs, a group of researchers at Washington University has been looking elsewhere: at 211 calls.