Development of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Facilities Status Dashboard for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Approach and Challenges.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: Develop a tool for applying various COVID-19 re-opening guidelines to the more than 120 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) facilities. Methods: A geographic information system boundary was created for each EPA facility encompassing the county where the EPA facility is located and the counties where employees commuted from. This commuting area is used for display in the Dashboard and to summarize population and COVID-19 health data for analysis. Results: Scientists in EPA's Office of Research and Development developed the EPA Facility Status Dashboard, an easy-to-use web application that displays data and statistical analyses on COVID-19 cases, testing, hospitalizations, and vaccination rates. Conclusion: The Dashboard was designed to provide

SUBMITTER: Baxter L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9172581 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature