Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.
Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, CA, United States.
Front Public Health. 2022 Jul 29;10:925808. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.925808. eCollection 2022.
Public dashboards have been one of the most effective tools to provide critical information about COVID-19 cases during the pandemic. However, dashboards for COVID-19 that have not received a lot of scrutiny are those from the public school system. We conducted an environmental scan of published dashboards that report and track new COVID-19 infections in the Florida public school system. We found that thirty-four percent of counties do not provide any public dashboard, and there was significant heterogeneity in the data quality and framework of existing systems. There were poor interfaces without visual tools to trace the trend of COVID-19 cases in public schools and significant limitations for data extraction. Given these observations, it is impossible to conduct meaningful policy evaluations and proper surveillance. Additional work and oversight are needed to improve public data reported.
公共仪表盘是大流行期间提供有关 COVID-19 病例的关键信息的最有效工具之一。然而，公众对公立学校系统的 COVID-19 仪表盘并没有给予太多关注。我们对报告和跟踪佛罗里达州公立学校系统中新 COVID-19 感染情况的已发布仪表盘进行了环境扫描。我们发现，34%的县没有提供任何公共仪表盘，而且现有系统的数据质量和框架存在显著差异。界面较差，没有视觉工具来跟踪公立学校 COVID-19 病例的趋势，数据提取也存在严重限制。鉴于这些观察结果，不可能进行有意义的政策评估和适当的监测。需要进一步努力和监督来改善公共数据报告。
