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Get testing data from Our World in Data (OWID) or FIND

Source: R/get_testing.R
get_testing.Rd

Pulls testing data from either OWID or FIND sources based on a 7d testing / 1K and positivity rate.

  • Most recent 7-day average data points for new tests per 1K AND positivity rate for use in risk matrix plots by WHO region.

  • After accounting for flags, we pick OWID by default when both OWID and FIND are available in last X days

Usage

get_testing(analysis_date = Sys.Date() - 1L)

Arguments

analysis_date

(date default: Sys.Date() - 1L) Start date from which to choose OWID or FIND data

Value

Returns a data frame with n rows and 5 columns, including:

id

character ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code

date

date Date of testing observation

new_tests_smoothed_per_thousand

double Tests / 1000 population (7d smooth)

new_tests_smoothed_per_thousand_14

double Tests / 1000 population (14d smooth)

positive_rate

double Test positivity rate (7d smooth)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
testing <- get_testing()
} # }