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

population

The Microsoft Azure COVID-19 Data Lake contains COVID-19 related datasets from various sources. The datasets include multiple topics: testing and patient outcome tracking data, and so on. Each datasets is available on different format and under specific license and use rights attribution.

non-collection specific

(Simple) Released

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

JSON Lines (.jsonl): a text format where each line is a complete JSON value.

JSONL

JavaScript Object Notation: a lightweight text-based data interchange format.

JSON

Apache Parquet: a columnar storage file format.

PARQUET

English

Microsoft

COVID-19 Data Lake

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

Control Strategy

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

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

diagnostic tests

Tests

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

host organism

Host

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 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 simulated or physical individuals in a population.

Population count

Population Count

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

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

hospital stay dataset

Hospitalization

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 collection of links to other data items, often found in external repositories. No claims are made as to the format or consistency of the items associated with those links.

catalog

Topic

Digital Object Type

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

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

Searchable collection of curated datasets and software resources for infectious disease modeling, filterable by disease, topic, location, and time period.

Identifier	URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/open-datasets/dataset-covid-19-data-lake
Type	Catalog
Topics/About	Control Strategy 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 Hospitalization Mortality Tests
Language	English
Accessible For Free	TRUE
Biological Scale	population
File Format	CSV, JSONL, JSON, PARQUET
Version	unspecified
HTTP Status Code	200
HTTP Checked On	2026/09/27