Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

cdc_deaths_by_week

Format

A data frame with 13 rows and 10 variables:

data_as_of

date When the data were most recently recorded

start_week

date Start week

end_week

double End 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

pneumonia_influenza_and_covid_19_deaths

integer COLUMN_DESCRIPTION

Source

Courtesy of Bob Rudis's cdccovidview package

Details

Table: Data summary

Namecdc_deaths_by_week
Number of rows13
Number of columns10
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Column type frequency:
Date3
numeric7
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Group variablesNone

Variable type: Date

skim_variablen_missingcomplete_rateminmaxmediann_unique
data_as_of012020-04-302020-04-302020-04-301
start_week012020-02-012020-04-252020-03-1413
end_week012020-02-012020-04-252020-03-1413

Variable type: numeric

skim_variablen_missingcomplete_ratemeansdp0p25p50p75p100hist
covid_deaths012655.464194.370.000.0049.002659.0011864.00▇▁▁▂▁
total_deaths0154875.859864.4624387.0053940.0056831.0057299.0065676.00▁▁▁▇▂
percent_expected_deaths010.970.170.450.970.970.991.19▁▁▁▇▂
pneumonia_deaths014825.002217.192219.003671.003692.005598.009580.00▇▃▁▁▂
pneumonia_and_covid_deaths011177.001863.760.000.0025.001220.005281.00▇▁▁▂▁
all_influenza_deaths_j09_j1101447.77156.1958.00427.00494.00536.00619.00▁▁▁▇▇
pneumonia_influenza_and_covid_19_deaths016690.234292.623553.004165.004275.007397.0016272.00▇▁▁▂▁

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