Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

cdc_deaths_by_age

Format

A data frame with 12 rows and 10 variables:

data_as_of

date When the data were most recently recorded

age_group

character Age range

start_week

date Start week

end_week

date End week

covid_deaths

integer COLUMN_DESCRIPTION

total_deaths

integer COLUMN_DESCRIPTION

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_age
Number of rows12
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
age_group015100120

Variable type: numeric

skim_variablen_missingcomplete_ratemeansdp0p25p50p75p100hist
covid_deaths015753.509877.312.0030.251211.507918.2534521.00▇▃▁▁▁
total_deaths01118897.67202377.07712.005675.2528460.00149341.50713386.00▇▂▁▁▁
percent_expected_deaths010.970.000.970.970.970.970.97▁▁▇▁▁
pneumonia_deaths0110454.1718036.2533.00109.001799.5014114.2562725.00▇▃▁▁▁
pneumonia_and_covid_deaths012550.174387.930.0012.50491.503515.7515301.00▇▃▁▁▁
all_influenza_deaths_j09_j1101970.171618.9011.0040.75358.501222.755821.00▇▃▁▁▁

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