covidcases: US Covid Data from the Covid-19 Data Hub

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US Covid Data from the Covid-19 Data Hub

Description

Weekly confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths at the state and county level in 2020, downloaded from the COVID19 R package.

Usage

covidcases

Format

A data frame with 69,530 rows and 5 variables.

state

State (administrative_area_level_2 from Covid-19 Data Hub)

county

County (administrative_area_level_3 from Covid-19 Data Hub)

week

Week of 2020

weekly_cases

Weekly Covid-19 cases calculated from the Covid-19 Data Hub's cumulative counts of confirmed cases. Note that, according to the Data Hub, "some of these values are negative due to decreasing cumulative counts in the original data provider".

weekly_deaths

Weekly Covid-19 deaths calculated from the Covid-19 Data Hub's cumulative counts of confirmed deaths. Again, note that "some of these values are negative due to decreasing cumulative counts in the original data provider".

Source

Guidotti, E., Ardia, D., (2020), "COVID-19 Data Hub", Journal of Open Source Software 5(51):2376, doi:10.21105/joss.02376"

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=COVID19

https://covid19datahub.io/index.html

HDSinRdata documentation built on April 3, 2025, 10:29 p.m.