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To learn more about public health agency use of social media, their use of risk communication strategies, and public response to risk communication strategies, LHEI and collaborators are working on a study to address important questions regarding US health agencies use of social media during the covid-19 pandemic.
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The Regional Temperature Profiler (RTP) is an open-access and open-source web-based application that provides information on historical temperature changes for particular counties of the US. The application retrieves data from NOAA’s API to create a county profile of temperatures pre and post 1980, clusters of low and high temperatures, and predictions for future temperatures.
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The Visualizer of Environmental Toxicants (VET) was developed to obtain information from the Toxic Releases Inventory (TRI) data of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and associated chemical information from the PubChem database of the National Library of Medicine, to map, organize and visualize information about releases of toxic chemicals into the air, land and water across the United States.
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