Infectious disease experts have predicted a pandemic, saying it was not a question of if but when. Drawing on experiences with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian influenza (H5N1), and novel influenza A (H1N1), the World Health Organization (WHO) and other health authorities, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), urged nations and local governments to prepare pandemic response plans. Many ministries of health and subnational departments of health around the world have activated those plans in response to coronavirus and are sharing data as required by the updated International Health Regulations.Esri's work with health organizations and government leaders has proven location intelligence from geographic information system (GIS) technology and data to be critical for the following:Assessing risk and evaluating threatsMonitoring and tracking outbreaksMaintaining situational awarenessEnsuring resource allocationNotifying agencies and communitiesThe current coronavirus disease pandemic presents an opportunity to build on the experience and readiness of Esri's existing global user community in health and human services. Through real-time maps, apps, and dashboards, GIS will also facilitate a seamless flow of relevant data as a component of the response from local to global levels. A compelling case exists for building on top of the public health GIS foundation that is already in place both in the United States and around the world.After reading this paper, leadership and senior staff should understand the following:The necessity to apply location intelligence to public health processes in coronavirus responseHow GIS can support immediate and long-term actionWhat resources Esri provides its customers

Needing to answer the question of “where” sat at the forefront of everyone’s mind, and using a geographic information system (GIS) for real-time surveillance transformed possibly overwhelming data into location intelligence that provided agencies and civic leaders with valuable insights.This book highlights best practices, key GIS capabilities, and lessons learned during the COVID-19 response that can help communities prepare for the next crisis.GIS has empowered:Organizations to use human mobility data to estimate the adherence to social distancing guidelinesCommunities to monitor their health care systems’ capacity through spatially enabled surge toolsGovernments to use location-allocation methods to site new resources (i.e., testing sites and augmented care sites) in ways that account for at-risk and vulnerable populationsCommunities to use maps and spatial analysis to review case trends at local levels to support reopening of economiesOrganizations to think spatially as they consider “back-to-the-workplace” plans that account for physical distancing and employee safety needsLearning from COVID-19 also includes a “next steps” section that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS, either as a citizen scientist or a health professional. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.Now is the time to use science and data to make informed decisions for our future, and this book shows us how we can do it.Dr. Este GeraghtyDr. Este Geraghty is the chief medical officer and health solutions director at Esri where she leads business development for the Health and Human Services sector.Matt ArtzMatt Artz is a content strategist for Esri Press. He brings a wide breadth of experience in environmental science, technology, and marketing.

On March 10, 2023, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center ceased collecting and reporting of global COVID-19 data. For updated cases, deaths, and vaccine data please visit the following sources:Global: World Health Organization (WHO)U.S.: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)For more information, visit the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.This feature layer contains the most up-to-date COVID-19 cases for the US. Data is pulled from the Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, the Red Cross, the Census American Community Survey, and the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, and aggregated at the US county level. This web map created and maintained by the Centers for Civic Impact at the Johns Hopkins University, and is supported by the Esri Living Atlas team and JHU Data Services. It is used in the COVID-19 United States Cases by County dashboard. For more information on Johns Hopkins University’s response to COVID-19, visit the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center where our experts help to advance understanding of the virus, inform the public, and brief policymakers in order to guide a response, improve care, and save lives.

COVID-19 data available by county from Johns Hopkins University (ArcGIS Blog).Johns Hopkins University is now providing data in a map layer by county for COVID-19 cases and deaths. This layer is created and maintained by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at the Johns Hopkins University. This feature layer is supported by Esri Living Atlas team and JHU Data Services. See the FAQ or contact Johns Hopkins for more information._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

Please note, the updated version of this toolbox is now available for download on this page. The COVID-19-Modeling-v1.zip file contains version 5 of the toolbox with updated documentation. Version 5 of the toolbox updates the CHIME Model v1.1.5 tool. The COVID-19Surge (CDC) model is unchanged in this version.More information about the toolbox can be found in the toolbox document. More information about the CHIME Model v1.1.5 tool, including the change log, can be found in the tool documentation and this video.More information about the COVID-19Surge (CDC) tool is included in the tool documentation and this video. CHIME Model v1.1.5 ToolVersion 4 - Updated 11 MAY 2020An implementation of Penn Medicine’s COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics (CHIME) for use in ArcGIS Pro 2.3 or later. This tool leverages SIR (Susceptible, Infected, Recovered) modeling to assist hospitals, cities, and regions with capacity planning around COVID-19 by providing estimates of daily new admissions and current inpatient hospitalizations (census), ICU admissions, and patients requiring ventilation. Version 4 of this tool is based on CHIME v1.1.5 (2020-05-07). Learn more about how CHIME works.Version 4 contains the following updates:Updated the CHIME tool from CHIME v1.1.2 to CHIME v1.1.5.Added a new parameter called Date of Social Distancing Measures Effect to specify the date when social distancing measures started showing their effects.Added a new parameter called Recovery to specify the number of recovered cases at the start of the model.COVID-19Surge (CDC) ToolVersion 1 - Released 04 MAY 2020An implementation of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID-19Surge for use in ArcGIS Pro 2.3 or later. This tool leverages SIICR (Susceptible, Infected, Infectious, Convalescing, Recovered) modeling to assist hospitals, cities, and regions with capacity planning around COVID-19 by providing estimates of daily new admissions and current inpatient hospitalizations (census), ICU admissions, and patients requiring ventilation based on the extent to which mitigation strategies such as social distancing or shelter-in-place recommendations are implemented. This tool is based on COVID-19Surge. Learn more about how COVID-19Surge works.Potential ApplicationsThe illustration above depicts the outputs of the COVID-19Surge (CDC) tool of the COVID-19 Modeling toolbox.A hospital systems administrator needs a simple model to project the number of patients the hospitals in the network will need to accommodate in the next 90 days due to COVID-19. You know the population served by each hospital, the date and level of current social distancing, the number of people who have recovered, and the number of patients that are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in each facility. Using your hospital point layer, you run the CHIME Model v1.1.5 tool.An aid agency wants to estimate where and when resources will be required in the counties you serve. You know the population and number of COVID-19 cases today and 14 days ago in each county. You run the COVID-19Surge (CDC) tool using your county polygon data, introducing an Intervention Policy and New Infections Per Case (R0) driven by fields to account for differences in anticipated social distancing policies and effectiveness between counties.A county wants to understand how the lessening or removal of interventions may impact hospital bed availability within the county. You run the CHIME Model v1.1.5 and COVID-19Surge (CDC) tool, checking Add Additional Web App Fields in Summary in both tools. You display the published results from each tool in the Capacity Analysis configurable app so estimates can be compared between models.This toolbox requires any license of ArcGIS Pro 2.3 or higher in order to run. Steps for upgrading ArcGIS Pro can be found here.For questions, comments and support, please visit our COVID-19 GeoNet community.

Learn ArcGIS lesson gallery with filter for "COVID" applied._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Visual Dashboard and Map:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

• Confirmed Cases by Country/Region/Sovereignty
• Confirmed Cases by Province/State/Dependency
• Deaths
• Recovered

Downloadable data:
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

Additional Information about the Visual Dashboard:
https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov

Racially equitable COVID-19 responses are critical to identifying and supporting the most at risk, and GIS can help.As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, organizations are responding to this public health and economic crisis. Many organizations are using maps and GIS data to understand, manage, and communicate the location of community resources. Racially equitable COVID-19 responses are critical to identifying and supporting the unserved and underserved populations most at risk during this pandemic. GIS can help us support these underserved populations._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

GISCorps quickly marshaled its members to build a nationwide map of COVID-19 testing sites.Key TakeawaysGISCorps rallies to provide quick, expert mapping help in times of crisis.Volunteers aggregate data on testing sites to create an authoritative national map.Additional map project memorializes victims and survivors of COVID-19._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

Coronavirus downloadable malware app clarification (ArcGIS Blog).The browser accessible map dashboard from John Hopkins University providing information concerning the Coronavirus is safe to use._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

The map data and summary statistics data are sourced from Johns Hopkins University and Esri’s Living Atlas. The charts are being sourced from a database created by Timmons Group GIS that leverages the temporal data provided by JHU on github.

Why did we do this?

1. The JHU dashboard is focused on Global and one can only drill down to a country-level for charting and summary statistics
2. We wanted to create a US Centric dashboard that one could drill down to the State level and County level for charting and summary statistics

How did we do this?

The raw data from JHU does not support the temporal charting at the State level or County level, so we created a data pipeline to leverage JHU’s source data files and transforms their raw data into our data model

Key features:

1. The only US centric dashboard with State and County level temporal charts of COVID-19 data
2. Ability to select multiple States or Counties and have maps and charts reflect the aggregate of those states/counties
3. Truly responsive design web-app; our dashboard works on desktop/tablet/phone without the need for users to select multiple apps
4. Ability to see the hardest impact States from the State table and exploring their associated charts
5. Ability to see the hardest impacted counties by the County table and exploring their associated charts
6. Ability to see the hardest impacted counties per State by selecting a State and exploring their associated charts

Check out our other ArcGIS Dashboard powered by the new ArcGIS Experience Builder to explore the COVID-19 curves at the country level around the world - Explore the COVID-19 Curve

For additional information, please contact:

• Mike Wiley
• Brian Kingery, GISP (@briankingery87)
• Jenn Kennedy

Data is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. It is subject to change at anytime.File created by LAPD/GIS with beautiful soup and geopandas.Data is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. It is subject to change at anytime. Please complete a Public Records request if there are any questions.Content decommissioned 1/30/21.

Use ArcGIS Insights for Understanding and Responding to COVID-19.Help your organization respond efficiently and plan effectively using ArcGIS Insights tools and data visualizations._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a public health emergency of international concern that caused disaster consequences all over the world. To mitigate and manage the pandemic, geographical information systems (GIS)-based spatial analysis has been used in a key role. To this aim, many GIS-based maps are produced by many national and international institutions. However, the produced maps are prepared by conventional methods and the features in these maps representing by their areal size. This paper proposes the diffusion-based cartograms for visualization of the COVID-19 outbreak. In the study, daily country-level data of the first 150 days of the COVID-19 outbreak were obtained from WHO, and the spread and spatial patterns of the epidemic were presented according to the number of confirmed cases and deaths. As a result of the study, it was observed that the cartogram is a powerful visualization tool and superior to the classical methods.

ArcGIS Dashboards Training Videos for COVID-19With the current COVID-19 situation across the world, there’s been a proliferation of corona virus themed dashboards emerging over the last few weeks in ArcGIS Online. Many of these were created with ArcGIS Dashboards, which enables users to convey information by presenting location-based analytics using intuitive and interactive data visualizations on a single screen._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

With the White House release of guidelines for states to reopen and employees to gradually return to work, facilities are tasked with complex challenges. Managers must make decisions to ensure a safe work environment and adhere to social distancing requirements. Office layouts must be restructured for adequate spacing between workspaces and to allow for routing that minimizes close-proximity encounters. Clear communication with staff will also be a key factor: Which areas should be avoided? When has an area last be cleaned?The ArcGIS Indoors system from Esri can help answer these geospatially focused questions for reopening the workplace. With indoor maps and an indoor positioning system, managers can create a floor-plan level awareness of the workplace, one that will allow for safe reopening._Communities around the world are taking strides in mitigating the threat that COVID-19 (coronavirus) poses. Geography and location analysis have a crucial role in better understanding this evolving pandemic.When you need help quickly, Esri can provide data, software, configurable applications, and technical support for your emergency GIS operations. Use GIS to rapidly access and visualize mission-critical information. Get the information you need quickly, in a way that’s easy to understand, to make better decisions during a crisis.Esri’s Disaster Response Program (DRP) assists with disasters worldwide as part of our corporate citizenship. We support response and relief efforts with GIS technology and expertise.More information...

On March 2, 2022 DC Health announced the District’s new COVID-19 Community Level key metrics and reporting. COVID-19 cases are now reported on a weekly basis. District of Columbia Department of Human Services testing for the number of positive tests, quarantined, returned to work and lives lost. Due to rapidly changing nature of COVID-19, data for March 2020 is limited.General Guidelines for Interpreting Disease Surveillance DataDuring a disease outbreak, the health department will collect, process, and analyze large amounts of information to understand and respond to the health impacts of the disease and its transmission in the community. The sources of disease surveillance information include contact tracing, medical record review, and laboratory information, and are considered protected health information. When interpreting the results of these analyses, it is important to keep in mind that the disease surveillance system may not capture the full picture of the outbreak, and that previously reported data may change over time as it undergoes data quality review or as additional information is added. These analyses, especially within populations with small samples, may be subject to large amounts of variation from day to day. Despite these limitations, data from disease surveillance is a valuable source of information to understand how to stop the spread of COVID19.

This Power BI dashboard shows the COVID-19 vaccination rate by key demographics including age groups, race and ethnicity, and sex for Tempe zip codes.Data Source: Maricopa County GIS Open Data weekly count of COVID-19 vaccinations. The data were reformatted from the source data to accommodate dashboard configuration. The Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) releases the COVID-19 vaccination data for each zip code and city in Maricopa County at ~12:00 PM weekly on Wednesdays via the Maricopa County GIS Open Data website (https://data-maricopa.opendata.arcgis.com/). More information about the data is available on the Maricopa County COVID-19 Vaccine Data page (https://www.maricopa.gov/5671/Public-Vaccine-Data#dashboard). The dashboard’s values are refreshed at 3:00 PM weekly on Wednesdays. The most recent date included on the dashboard is available by hovering over the last point on the right-hand side of each chart. Please note that the times when the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) releases weekly data for COVID-19 vaccines may vary. If data are not released by the time of the scheduled dashboard refresh, the values may appear on the dashboard with the next data release, which may be one or more days after the last scheduled release.Dates: Updated data shows publishing dates which represents values from the previous calendar week (Sunday through Saturday). For more details on data reporting, please see the Maricopa County COVID-19 data reporting notes at https://www.maricopa.gov/5460/Coronavirus-Disease-2019.

Using the coronavirus infographic template in Business/Community Analyst Web (ArcGIS Blog).

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