The New York Times is sharing the data files supporting their reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak. These files contain cumulative counts of COVID-19 cases and deaths (confirmed and probable) in the United States over time at the national, state, and county levels. Data collection is ongoing and is sourced from state and local governments and health departments.

This is the US Coronavirus data repository from The New York Times . This data includes COVID-19 cases and deaths reported by state and county. The New York Times compiled this data based on reports from state and local health agencies. More information on the data repository is available here . For additional reporting and data visualizations, see The New York Times’ U.S. coronavirus interactive site . This public dataset is hosted in Google BigQuery and is included in BigQuery's 1TB/mo of free tier processing. This means that each user receives 1TB of free BigQuery processing every month, which can be used to run queries on this public dataset. Watch this short video to learn how to get started quickly using BigQuery to access public datasets. What is BigQuery . This dataset has significant public interest in light of the COVID-19 crisis. All bytes processed in queries against this dataset will be zeroed out, making this part of the query free. Data joined with the dataset will be billed at the normal rate to prevent abuse. After September 15, queries over these datasets will revert to the normal billing rate. Users of The New York Times public-use data files must comply with data use restrictions to ensure that the information will be used solely for noncommercial purposes.

Abstract

Data collecting by local state and local health agencies. Compiled and visualized by The New York Times.

Documentation

This is the US Coronavirus data repository from The New York Times here U.S. coronavirus interactive site. This data includes COVID-19 cases and deaths reported by state and county. The New York Times compiled this data based on reports from state and local health agencies. More information on the data repository is available. For additional reporting and data visualizations, see The New York Times’ Interactive coronavirus data tool.

Data source: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data

Context

This is the US Coronavirus data repository from The New York Times . This data includes COVID-19 cases and deaths reported by state and county. The New York Times compiled this data based on reports from state and local health agencies. More information on the data repository is available here . For additional reporting and data visualizations, see The New York Times’ U.S. coronavirus interactive site

Sample Queries

Query 1

Which US counties have the most confirmed cases per capita? This query determines which counties have the most cases per 100,000 residents. Note that this may differ from similar queries of other datasets because of differences in reporting lag, methodologies, or other dataset differences.

SELECT covid19.county, covid19.state_name, total_pop AS county_population, confirmed_cases, ROUND(confirmed_cases/total_pop *100000,2) AS confirmed_cases_per_100000, deaths, ROUND(deaths/total_pop *100000,2) AS deaths_per_100000 FROM bigquery-public-data.covid19_nyt.us_counties covid19 JOIN bigquery-public-data.census_bureau_acs.county_2017_5yr acs ON covid19.county_fips_code = acs.geo_id WHERE date = DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE(),INTERVAL 1 day) AND covid19.county_fips_code != "00000" ORDER BY confirmed_cases_per_100000 desc

Query 2

How do I calculate the number of new COVID-19 cases per day? This query determines the total number of new cases in each state for each day available in the dataset SELECT b.state_name, b.date, MAX(b.confirmed_cases - a.confirmed_cases) AS daily_confirmed_cases FROM (SELECT state_name AS state, state_fips_code , confirmed_cases, DATE_ADD(date, INTERVAL 1 day) AS date_shift FROM bigquery-public-data.covid19_nyt.us_states WHERE confirmed_cases + deaths > 0) a JOIN bigquery-public-data.covid19_nyt.us_states b ON a.state_fips_code = b.state_fips_code AND a.date_shift = b.date GROUP BY b.state_name, date ORDER BY date desc

Abstract

The New York Times is releasing a series of data files with cumulative counts of coronavirus cases in the United States, at the state and county level, over time.

Documentation

https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data

U.S. National-Level Data

The daily number of cases and deaths nationwide, including states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia, can be found in the covid_us table. (Raw CSV file here.)

%3E date,cases,deaths 2020-01-21,1,0 ...

State-Level Data

State-level data can be found in the covid_us_states table. (Raw CSV file here.)

%3E date,state,fips,cases,deaths 2020-01-21,Washington,53,1,0 ...

County-Level Data

County-level data can be found in the covid_us_counties table. (Raw CSV file here.)

%3E date,county,state,fips,cases,deaths 2020-01-21,Snohomish,Washington,53061,1,0 ...

In some cases, the geographies where cases are reported do not map to standard county boundaries. See the list of geographic exceptions for more detail on these.

Data from The New York Times, based on reports from state and local health agencies and contains cumulative cases and deaths counts of coronavirus cases in the United States, at the state and county level, over time. The data are created by compiling time series data from state and local governments and health departments. Starting from 2020-06-02, the cumulative number of cases and deaths is also be available at country level. The data was extracted from the New York Times GitHub repository daily, https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data.

The New York Times is releasing a series of data files with cumulative counts of coronavirus cases in the United States, at the state and county level, over time. We are compiling this time series data from state and local governments and health departments in an attempt to provide a complete record of the ongoing outbreak.

Since late January, The Times has tracked cases of coronavirus in real time as they were identified after testing. Because of the widespread shortage of testing, however, the data is necessarily limited in the picture it presents of the outbreak.

We have used this data to power our maps and reporting tracking the outbreak, and it is now being made available to the public in response to requests from researchers, scientists and government officials who would like access to the data to better understand the outbreak.

The data begins with the first reported coronavirus case in Washington State on Jan. 21, 2020. We will publish regular updates to the data in this repository.

United States Data

Data on cumulative coronavirus cases and deaths can be found in two files for states and counties.

Each row of data reports cumulative counts based on our best reporting up to the moment we publish an update. We do our best to revise earlier entries in the data when we receive new information.

Both files contain FIPS codes, a standard geographic identifier, to make it easier for an analyst to combine this data with other data sets like a map file or population data.

State-Level Data

State-level data can be found in the us-states.csv file.

date,state,fips,cases,deaths
2020-01-21,Washington,53,1,0
...

County-Level Data

County-level data can be found in the us-counties.csv file.

date,county,state,fips,cases,deaths
2020-01-21,Snohomish,Washington,53061,1,0
...

In some cases, the geographies where cases are reported do not map to standard county boundaries. See the list of geographic exceptions for more detail on these.

Github Repository

This dataset contains COVID-19 data for the United States of America made available by The New York Times on github at https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data