About

The US Covid Atlas works to understand, archive, and represent the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The Atlas is a free, interactive data visualization tool connecting COVID-19 data with community health indicators to deliver insights about the pandemic across the country. After more than two years of mapping and visualizing the numbers behind the pandemic, we're now turning to the stories behind the statistics.

Atlas Stories aims to elevate the human perspective alongside the data of the pandemic. Everyone has a story to tell about their pandemic experiences. By participating in this pandemic oral histories project -- whether through recording a video or audio story, writing about your experience, uploading a picture, or calling in your story -- you are lifting up the stories behind the statistics and humanizing the data.

How will your story be visualized on the Atlas? The only information that we require for you to share along with your story submission is your county of residence (or county most relevant to your pandemic experience) in the United States. This allows us to geo-tag your story in a random location in that county, to match with other county-level data currently featured on the Atlas.

To learn more, read our Story Submission Overview and review our Privacy License & Terms of Use. If you're ready to share your story, go ahead and Submit your Story now!

The US Covid Atlas is led by the Healthy Regions and Policies Lab and Center for Spatial Data Science at University of Chicago. Atlas Stories partners with Truth & Documentary, a production company serving non-profits, artists, journalism outlets and documentary filmmakers, based in Chicago. This project is funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.