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Changelog
What's new on Pulse NYC — updates ship continuously
Mar 15, 2026
Maternal Health Section + Wastewater Surveillance
- •New Maternal Health page — pregnancy-related mortality by cause and race, C-section rates by borough, infant mortality disparities
- •COVID wastewater surveillance chart — SARS-CoV-2 viral load from NYC sewersheds (CDC NWSS)
- •Flu wastewater chart — Influenza A viral signal as an early-warning indicator
- •Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) trend chart on Nutrition page — obesity, soda, physical activity
- •Accessibility: dash patterns on all line charts for colorblind users, varied opacity on bar charts
- •Share button on neighborhood profiles — Web Share API with clipboard fallback
Mar 10, 2026
Email Digest + Domain Launch
- •Custom domain: pulsenyc.app is now live
- •Daily & weekly email digest — choose your frequency at signup
- •Vercel cron jobs for automated email delivery (Mon 1 PM weekly, daily at 1 PM)
- •Light wellness theme for email digest HTML
Mar 5, 2026
Neighborhood Profiles + Live Data Expansion
- •42 UHF neighborhood health profiles with save & compare features
- •CDC PLACES census tract choropleth map — 7 health measures at tract level
- •Heat Vulnerability Index by neighborhood (NYC DOHMH)
- •Blood lead screening by neighborhood (children <6 with BLL ≥5 μg/dL)
- •HIV surveillance by neighborhood from NYC DOHMH
Feb 2026
Core Platform Launch
- •9 health topic sections: Air Quality, COVID, Flu, Food Safety, Environment, Chronic Disease, Overdose, Nutrition, Demographics
- •Live data from 16+ public APIs — NYC DOHMH, CDC, Census ACS, EPA, NY State DOH
- •Real-time health insights ticker with status indicators
- •Google News health feed integration
- •Neighborhood search with autocomplete