getit_covid: get COVID-19 updated cases

In c1au6i0/covid19census_dev: Extracts Covid-19 and other demographic metrics regarding U.S.A and Italy

Description

extracts and translates time series form the git repository of the protezione civile

Usage

getit_covid()

Details

caveats and problems related the calculation by the Protezione Civile of some variables were rised by GIMBE Foundation. Unfortunately the page is in Italian... buona lettura!

Value

a dataframe with following 19 variables:

date

in ISO 8601 format

state

state

region_code

region abbreviation

region

full name of region

lat

lat

long

long

cmr

case-mortality rate for that region and that date (deaths/total_cases * 100)

total_cases

number of COVID-19 positive cases detected

deaths

number of deaths

tests

number of tests performed

hospitalized_with_symptoms

number of people hospitalized with symptoms, that day

intensive_care_unit

number of people in intensive care units, that day

total_hospitalized

hospitalized_with_symptoms + intensive_care_unit

home_quarantine

number of people COVID-19 positive in home quarantine, that day

total_positives

total currently positives: hospitalized_with_symptoms + intensive_care_unit + home_quarantine

change_positives

change in the number of positive cases: total_positives that day - total_positives preceding day

new_positives

number of new positive cases: total_cases that day - total_cases preceding day

recovered_released

recovered - released from hospital

people_tested

number of people tested

c1au6i0/covid19census_dev documentation built on May 8, 2020, 1:01 a.m.