covus_race: COVID-19 case and death counts for the USA by race and state...
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covus_race

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COVID-19 case and death counts for the USA by race and state current as of Sunday, January 22, 2023

Description

The COVID Racial Data Tracker advocates for, collects, publishes, and analyzes racial data on the pandemic across the United States. It’s a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.

Usage

covus_race

Format

A tibble with 47,880 rows and 7 columns

date: date Data reported as of this date
state: character State
group: character Racial group
cases: integer Total cases, count
deaths: integer Total deaths, count
hosp: integer Total hospitalizations, count

Details

Table: Data summary


Name	covus_race
Number of rows	47880
Number of columns	7
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Column type frequency:
Date	1
character	2
numeric	4
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Group variables	None

Variable type: Date

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	median	n_unique
date	0	1	2020-04-12	2021-03-07	2020-09-23	95

Variable type: character

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	empty	n_unique	whitespace
state	0	1	2	2	0	56	0
group	0	1	5	11	0	9	0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	mean	sd	p0	p25	p50	p75	p100	hist
cases	15684	0.67	30240.68	103176.64	0	568	3661	21026	2619476	▇▁▁▁▁
deaths	17686	0.63	708.93	1836.84	-1	12	68	440	24402	▇▁▁▁▁
hosp	37253	0.22	2077.78	4654.37	0	67	345	1716	41099	▇▁▁▁▁
tests	43549	0.09	349773.42	1269936.08	0	6298	36108	199214	18567612	▇▁▁▁▁

The group variable is coded as follows:

groups

White

Black

Latino

Asian

AI/AN

NH/PI

Multiracial

Other

Unknown

AI/AN is American Indian/Alaska Native. NH/PI is Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. State-level counts should be handled with care, given the widely varying population distribution of people of different racial backgrounds by state.