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get_covid_df

Source: R/get_covid_sources.R
get_covid_df.Rd

Get and prepare COVID data.

Pull in current case and death counts from WHO source. For disaggregated China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau data we pull from JHU or primary sources.

Usage

get_covid_df(sources = c("all", "WHO", "WHO+JHU", "WHO+Primary"))

Arguments

sources

one of "all", "WHO", "WHO+JHU", "WHO+Primary" specifying the data sources to pull from. See details.

Value

Returns a data frame with n rows and 8 columns, including:

  • date date Date of observation

  • iso2code character ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

  • country character WHO english country name

  • new_cases integer Number of new cases reported on date

  • cumulative_cases integer Number of cumulative cases to date

  • new_deaths integer Number of new deaths reported on date

  • cumulative_deaths integer Number of cumulative deaths to date

  • source character Data Source

Details

In legacy versions, the default was to pull "all" sources, which included the WHO case/death time-series and JHU data for China Mainland, HK, Macau, and Taiwan. Due to sun-setting and changes in reporting, we now capture HK and Taiwan data from primary sources ("WHO+Primary"). Note that this also includes JHU data on Macau which will be reported thru Mar 10, 2023 when JHU closes their dashboard.