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Data adapted from the {covidregionaldata} package of daily cases and deaths from the 19 countries with 100,000 or more deaths over the period 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31. See the References for the publication which links to data sources made available through {covidregionaldata}. Included as {covidregionaldata} is no longer on CRAN. Data are provided as a <data.frame>.

Usage

covid_data

Format

covid_data

A <data.frame> with 20,786 rows and 4 columns:

date

Calendar date in the format %Y-%m-%d

country

The country name in simple format, e.g. "United States" rather than "United States of America"

cases

Number of cases reported on each date

deaths

Number of deaths reported on each date

References

Joseph Palmer, Katharine Sherratt, Richard Martin-Nielsen, Jonnie Bevan, Hamish Gibbs, Sebastian Funk and Sam Abbott (2021). covidregionaldata: Subnational data for COVID-19 epidemiology. doi:10.21105/joss.03290