The dataset is on COVID-19 in long-term care facilities. Cumulative COVID-19 totals represent total cases, deaths and facilities as reported by states and territories. They manually compiled figures once a week from every state and territory that reported case and death information for these facilities. Since states had no uniform method of reporting the data put forth by the federal government, none of the data is standardized. They preserved categories like facility type, staff and resident cases and deaths and outbreak and cumulative cases in every possible instance, which means these data points vary from state to state.