Introduction to covidnor
In covidnor: Public COVID-19 Data for Norway

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covidnor cleans and merges the publicly available datasets on COVID-19 in Norway into analysis-ready datasets.

The following data are provided in this package:

case numbers
ICU/hospital admissions
testing
vaccinations

The overall data is stored as total, and has 419k rows. More information on what variables and specifications are available, and how to extract specifications you want can be found here.

Getting started

Instead of working directly on total data, you might want to use a certain combination of time, location, outcome. We recommend using the data.table syntax for data filtering and subsetting.

For example, to get weekly Covid cases and hospital admissions as main cause for Norway:

# load total data (419k rows)
totaldata <- covidnor::total_b2020

# get weekly cases (confirmed) and hospitalisation for Norway
case_hosp <- totaldata[granularity_time == 'isoyearweek' &
                     granularity_geo == 'nation',
                   .(date, 
                     location_name, 
                     cases = cases_by_testdate_n, 
                     hospital_adm = hospital_admissions_main_cause_n)]
case_hosp

For more details, please refer to the vignette and data documentation.

Several of CSIDS packages (csstyle, csalert) make use of covidnor data. You can read the following documentation to find out more,

Epicurves in cstyle,
Short term trend for COVID cases in csalert.

Background

This package curates publicly available COVID-19 data in Norway between 2020-04-24 to 2022-11-14. The original data repository (surveillance_data) which automatically published machine-friendly COVID-19 data updates on weekdays at 13:15 can be accessed here. The original repository was archived by Sykdomspulsen team at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health due to lack of funding.