Items corresponding to entire populations or subpopulations. Might be geographically or temporally temporally limited.

population

A series of data files with cumulative counts and of coronavirus cases and deaths in the United States, at the national, state and county level, over time. Time series data are gotten from state and local governments and health departments.

Separate files report on mask use (single survey July 2020) and cases in colleges and prisons (through March 2021). Excess deaths reported until 2021-01-18.

non-collection specific

(Simple) Released

Comma-separated values: a delimited text file format for tabular data.

County

State

Country

United States

English

The New York Times

Coronavirus data in the United States

A species of BETACORONAVIRUS causing atypical respiratory disease (COVID-19) in humans. The organism was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China. The natural host is the Chinese intermediate horseshoe bat, RHINOLOPHUS affinis.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

SARS-CoV2

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the site of reproduction of an organism of a different taxon.

host organism

Host

Actions of groups of people in response to outbreaks.

behavior

Behavior

Homo sapiens

A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease

Disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder

infectious disease

Infectious Disease

A Coronavirus infection that is characterized by fever, cough and shortness of breath and that has_material_basis_in SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19

A count of deaths in a population that is the total number of deaths that occur during a reference temporal interval.

cumulative death count

Cumulative Death Count

A count of individuals in a population who meet the criteria of some case definition during some time interval.

count of disease cases

Case Count

viral Infectious disease

Viruses Infection

A count of disease cases that is the total number of individuals who come to meet the criteria of some case definition during a reference temporal interval.

cumulative case count

Cumulative Case Count

 A count of simulated or physical individuals in a population.

Population count

Population Count

A population mortality dataset that compares deaths in the population during one time interval to deaths in the population during a previous time interval and reports an estimate of how many more or less deaths occurred in the later time interval.

excess mortality dataset

Excess Mortality

A data set that is about either some mortality rate or the death events themselves of some individuals of a given population of a particular biological taxon.

mortality data

Mortality

Vaccine preventable diseases are those infectious diseases that can be prevented by vaccination

vaccine-preventable Disease

Vaccine-Preventable Disease

A respiratory tract infection caused by a virus. Viruses represent the most common causes of upper and lower respiratory tract infections and include rhinoviruses, influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus.

viral respiratory tract infection

Viral Respiratory Tract Infection

Minute infectious agents whose genomes are composed of DNA or RNA, but not both. They are characterized by a lack of independent metabolism and the inability to replicate outside living host cells.

Viruses

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the bearer of an infectious dispositions towards an organism of a different particular biological taxon.

pathogen

Pathogen

A data item that is an aggregate of other data items of the same type that have something in common. Averages and distributions can be determined for data sets.

data set

The 'about' property contains mixed types: DefinedTerm objects represent subject matter/topics, while Place objects represent geographical scope or applicability

about-property-structure

Apache 2.0

Schema.org vocabulary for structured data on the web

Schema.org

A structured data markup specification for describing datasets in the life sciences, extending schema.org Dataset

Bioschemas Dataset Profile

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms - refined elements for precise resource description

DCMI Metadata Terms

W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary for describing data catalogs

Data Catalog Vocabulary

DataCite metadata schema for research data citation

DataCite Metadata Schema

W3C Provenance Ontology for describing provenance information

PROV Ontology

Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology for metadata about web resources

PAV Ontology

Custom MIDAS vocabulary for epidemiological data and modeling

MIDAS Metadata Vocabulary

OBO Foundry ontologies for life sciences and biomedical research

Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology

GeoNames Ontology

Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

HL7 FHIR

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms

SNOMED Clinical Terms

LOINC database for laboratory and clinical observations

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

JSON Schema (Draft 2020-12) defining the structure of MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD metadata records

MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD Schema

Landing page where users can browse and download dataset files in various formats.

Identifier	URL: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
Type	Data Set
Topics/About	Behavior Disease Infectious Disease Vaccine-Preventable Disease COVID-19 Viruses Infection Viral Respiratory Tract Infection COVID-19 Host Homo sapiens Pathogen Viruses SARS-CoV2 Population Count Case Count Cumulative Case Count Mortality Cumulative Death Count Excess Mortality
Language	English
Rights	https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/LICENSE
Accessible For Free	TRUE
Biological Scale	population
Geographical Scope	United States
Geographical Resolution	County, State, Country
Start Date	2020/01/21
End Date	2023/03/23
Collection End Date	2023/03/23
File Format	CSV
Version	unspecified
HTTP Status Code	200
HTTP Checked On	2026/08/23