population

The Covid Act Now API provides access to comprehensive COVID data — both current and historical about risk levels and key metrics. The data is available for all US states, counties, and metros and comes from official sources including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The New York Times, and official state and county dashboards.

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United States

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Act Now Coalition

COVID Act Now

A census of infectious disease control strategies put into place to reduce infection acquisitions that are part of an infection in an ecosystem.

control strategy census

A population treatment census that is about one or more vaccinations of organisms in a population.

vaccination administration census

A service that has some information content entity as input and output.

data service

Information about capacity, including hospital beds, PPE supplies, nursing home capacity, testing sites, therapeutics, etc.

health system capacity

Counts of cases, deaths, etc. Often includes multiple types of counts as not compatible with more specific labels. Information about diagnostic tests, results, including serology tests, PCR, and other tests. Can include various methods of estimation, including the COVID-19 Forecast and Scenario Hubs.

case counts

A dataset that is about two or more hospital stays involving two or more patients.

hospital stay dataset

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

Information about diagnostic tests, results, including serology tests, PCR, and other tests.

diagnostic tests

Actions of groups of people in response to outbreaks.

behavior

A data set that is about one or more potentially infectious contact processes in a population of host organisms.

potentially infectious contact data set

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

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

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

host organism

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

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder.

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

Software is a plan specification composed of a series of instructions that can be interpreted by or directly executed by a processing unit.

Identifier	URL:https://covidactnow.org
Type	software, data service
Biological Scale	population
Collection End Date
Language	English
Topics	behavior potentially infectious contact data set case counts diagnostic tests hospital stay dataset mortality data control strategy census vaccination administration census data service disease infectious disease COVID-19 health system capacity host organism Homo sapiens pathogen Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Geographical Scope	United States
Geographical Resolution	County, State, Country
Start Date
End Date
Version	unspecified
Accessible For Free	TRUE
License	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Rights	https://covidactnow.org/data-api
HTTP Status Code	200
HTTP Checked On	2025/06/16