nytimes/covid-19-data resource

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An archived New York Times dataset of cumulative COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States at the national, state, and county level from 2020 to early 2023, plus supplementary datasets on prisons, colleges, excess deaths, and mask use. Daily updates ended in March 2023 and the repository now serves as a historical record.

Use cases

• analyze historical covid-19 case and death trends by county
• download us state-level covid time series as csv
• study excess deaths during the pandemic
• research covid outbreaks in prisons and colleges
• build data visualizations of the pandemic's spread
• train models on historical epidemiological data

When to choose

• you need historical US covid-19 case and death data from 2020-2023
• you want county-level time series for retrospective analysis
• you need supplementary datasets like mask use or prison cases

When to avoid

• you need current or live covid-19 data
• you need data outside the United States
• you need hospitalization or testing data, which is not included

Facets

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data-science analytics csv data-science healthcare analytics cross-platform covid-19 public-health time-series united-states archived epidemiology

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