Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

cdc_deaths_by_sex

Format

A data frame with 3 rows and 10 variables:

data_as_of

date Date most recently updated

sex

character Sex

start_week

date Beginning week

end_week

date Ending week

covid_deaths

integer COVID deaths

total_deaths

integer Total deaths

percent_expected_deaths

double COLUMN_DESCRIPTION

pneumonia_deaths

integer COLUMN_DESCRIPTION

pneumonia_and_covid_deaths

integer COLUMN_DESCRIPTION

all_influenza_deaths_j09_j11

integer COLUMN_DESCRIPTION

Source

Courtesy of Bob Rudis's cdccovidview package

Details

Table: Data summary

Namecdc_deaths_by_sex
Number of rows3
Number of columns10
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Column type frequency:
Date3
character1
numeric6
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Group variablesNone

Variable type: Date

skim_variablen_missingcomplete_rateminmaxmediann_unique
data_as_of012020-04-302020-04-302020-04-301
start_week012020-02-012020-02-012020-02-011
end_week012020-04-252020-04-252020-04-251

Variable type: character

skim_variablen_missingcomplete_rateminmaxemptyn_uniquewhitespace
sex0147030

Variable type: numeric

skim_variablen_missingcomplete_ratemeansdp0p25p50p75p100hist
covid_deaths0111507.3310231.401.007470.5014940.0017260.5019581.00▇▁▁▇▇
total_deaths01237795.00206241.0625.00172555.00345085.00356680.00368275.00▃▁▁▁▇
percent_expected_deaths010.970.000.970.970.970.970.97▁▁▇▁▁
pneumonia_deaths0120908.3318248.401.0014545.0029089.0031362.0033635.00▃▁▁▁▇
pneumonia_and_covid_deaths015100.334559.671.003258.006515.007650.008785.00▇▁▁▇▇
all_influenza_deaths_j09_j11011940.331682.210.001416.002832.002910.502989.00▃▁▁▁▇

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control provides weekly summary and interpretation of key indicators that have been adapted to track the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Data is retrieved using the cdccovidview package from both COVIDView (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html) and COVID-NET (https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html). Please see the indicated reference for all the caveats and precise meanings for each field.

Author

Kieran Healy