load_covid: Load Covid-19 Data

In pandemicLP/pandemicLP: Long term prediction for epidemic and pandemic data

Description

This function pulls Covid-19 data up to a certain date, for a specified country (and state, if country_name = "Brazil"). The output of this function is in the correct format to be used directly into the model adjustment function pandemic_model included in this package.

The user must online for this function to work.

Usage

load_covid(country_name, state_name, last_date)

Arguments

country_name	Character string specifying the country of interest. Check country_list() for the list of countries available in the database.
state_name	Optional character string specifying the state of interest - only brazilians states currently available in the database. state_name should be NULL or a string of length 2. Check state_list() for the state abbreviations that will be used and the corresponding state names.
last_date	Optional date, character or factor argument specifying the last date in the data. It should be in the YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD format.The default is the most recent date available in the database.

Value

A list with 3 items.

• The first item is a data frame with the number of cumulative cases, new cases, cumulative deaths and new deaths associated with Covid-19 for each date, up to the last_date in the specified region.

• The second item is a character string with the country name (and state name, if available).

• The third item is a numeric object that contains the population size of the given region.

Source

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 https://github.com/covid19br/covid19br.github.io

References

CovidLPTeam, 2020. CovidLP: Short and Long-term Prediction for COVID-19. Departamento de Estatistica. UFMG, Brazil. URL: http://est.ufmg.br/covidlp/home/en/

See Also

country_list state_list pandemic_model posterior_predict.pandemicEstimated plot.pandemicPredicted

Examples

load_covid("Brazil","MG")
load_covid(country_name = "India", last_date = "2020-06-15")
load_covid("US")
load_covid(country_name = "italy")

pandemicLP/pandemicLP documentation built on July 18, 2020, 12:37 a.m.