Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Research Resources for Tracking/Data
- COVID-19 GIS Hub"This COVID-19 ArcGIS Hub is designed to gather and share relevant, and authoritative, community driven resources from around the world. Use the content here to aid with real-time monitoring, support mapping and analysis, and increase overall community preparedness." (ESRI Public Health)
- COVID-19 Canada GIS HubThis GIS Hub is provided by Esri Canada to share information about the coronavirus pandemic. Information sources include the Community Map of Canada, the Living Atlas, Environics Analytics and others.
- List of Novel Coronavirus DashboardsFrom ESRI China
Uses significant memory so may cause computer issues
- COVID-19 projectionsThese are projections that indicate how quickly COVID-19 could grow without measures being put into place. Uses data from Johns Hopkins
Tracking Maps/Data
- COVID-19 in AlbertaFrom Alberta Health. Includes statistics, lab results and geospatial information at the zone level.
- CBC COVID statisticsCompiled and updated by Robson Fletcher.
- COVID-19 in WastewaterAs of July 1st, 2023, the Alberta COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program has been transitioned from the University of Calgary and University of Alberta to Alberta Health (AH) and Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL). The CHI Tracker will continue to be a resource for Albertans, as we will share the COVID-19 wastewater monitoring data generated by AH and APL.
- Historical Alberta COVID-19 R-ValuesGoogle Sheet maintained by Librarian Paul R. Pival that archives R-Value data from the official Alberta cases website. Ended March, 2022
- COVID-19 school status mapThe school outbreak map shows the current status of COVID-19 in K-12 schools across Alberta. Schools that have 2 or more confirmed cases will be identified on the map. From AB Government. Ended December, 2022
- CBC COVID-19 statistics for AlbertaCompiled and updated by Robson Fletcher. Ended November, 2021
- Alberta COVID-19 DashboardFrom the NAIT Centre for Applied Disaster and Emergency Management. (Not updated after July 1, 2021)
- Charting Alberta COVIDA series of visualizations with Alberta specific info by cohort, in schools, active cases, and outbreaks by zone. Created by Alberta journalist Aryn Toombs. Ended July, 2022.
- AB COVID-19 ProjectionsFrom The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent global health research center at the University of Washington. Ended November, 2022.
- COVID-19 on the Government of Canada Web ArchiveThis collection provides access to websites related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, captured between February 2020 and the present. These resources document the response to the crisis from public health agencies, governments, charities and other groups, and the impact of the pandemic on life in Canada.
- COVID-19 in Canada DashboardFrom the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group. Includes maps, cases, testing and vaccination tracking.
- COVID-19 Intervention Timeline in CanadaInteractive tool that displays a high-level timeline of federal, provincial and territorial government interventions to reduce the spread of and improve health outcomes related to COVID-19. See also: https://github.com/ccodwg/CovidTimelineCanada
From the Canadian Institute for Health Information. - COVIDTrendsCOVIDTrends is a tool that provides summary data about COVID-19 in your area. When you search by municipality (city, town), or by the first 3 characters of your postal code, data from your health region will appear. From the Govt. of Canada
- COVID-19 Updates: CanadaThis resource focuses on Canada, though includes international statistics as well.
- CHI COVID-19 TrackerFrom the Centre for Health Informatics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
- COVID-19 Health Dashboard for CanadaSmall area estimates derived from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Community Health Survey modeled by Environics Analytics.
- COVID-19 daily epidemiology updateSummary of COVID-19 cases across Canada and over time. Contains detailed data about the spread of the virus over time and in different regions of the country. Includes breakdowns by age and sex or gender. Provides an overview of hospitalizations and deaths, testing, variants of concern and exposures.
- Canada COVID-19 Situational Awareness Dashboard (Archived)A collaboration between Public Health Agency of Canada, Statistics Canada and Natural Resources Canada. Superseded by COVID-19 daily epidemiology update
- Interactive data visualizations of COVID-19 in CanadaFrom Statistics Canada. Interactive data map of COVID-19 cases across Canada. Shows number of individual tested, total cases, deaths and cases recovered over time by provinces, territories and national levels starting from 2020-01-31 to present time. The values are updated daily.
- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in CanadaFrom the Government of Canada
- Canada COVID-19 School TrackerThe Canada COVID-19 School Tracker is a 100% volunteer-led project tracking COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in schools across Canada. The goal of this project is to highlight the impact of COVID-19 on schools and families; to advocate for safer schools; and to advocate for transparency in our educational system.
- Interactive Vaccine Charts for CanadaVaccination rates charts created by Blake Shaffer
- Canadian COVID-19 Data ArchiveThe purpose of this repository is to support automated, daily backups of COVID-19 data from Canadian governmental and non-governmental sources. It is composed of a list of datasets (datasets.json), as well as the Python code making up the archival tool itself.
- COVID-19 WastewaterData from Public Health Agency of Canada
- Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case CountFrom the New York Times
- AAA COVID-19 Travel RestrictionsIncludes Canada too.
- Coronavirus Variant TrackerFrom Axios. New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are rapidly spreading through the U.S. These coronavirus variants are being studied because they may be more transmissible, cause more severe disease, or reduce the efficacy of current vaccines. Our live tracker keeps you updated with the key information you need to know.
- SARS-CoV-2 RNA Levels in Wastewater in the United StatesMaps, charts, and data provided by CDC, updated by 8pm ET. Represents all wastewater data submitted directly to CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System's DCIPHER platform, subject to suppression criteria described in Footnotes.
- COVID-19: Local Action TrackerThe data in this Tracker serves as a reflection of the ways that cities across the United States leapt into action to meet community needs and learn from each other at the height of the pandemic and over the following two years. (Feb 2020 - Feb 2022)
- COVID Tracking Project Records (Archive)The COVID Tracking Project was a volunteer organization launched from The Atlantic and dedicated to collecting and publishing the data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. Their records include data products and sources, blog and social media posts, correspondence, internal communications, and team documents. Technical infrastructure, such as data entry and quality tools, public code repositories, and internal databases are also present.
- Development of the Global Cases mapFor more information about the interactive global cases map
- Coronavirus COVID-19 Global CasesThe dashboard reports cases at the province level in China; at the city level in the USA, Australia, and Canada; and at the country level otherwise. Mobile version
- University of Washington Infection Map"To make a timely data and map updates, we collect the data every 4 hours, and verify the data quality per day."
- Bing COVID-19 TrackerInteractive global map with real-time data from Microsoft's Bing search engine.
- nCoV2019.live COVID -19 dashboardProvides country-specific information. Built by a 17-year old in Seattle.
- Overview of SARS-CoV-2 in AnimalsA global open access dataset of reported SARS-CoV-2 events in animals. Administered by the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna.
- Mapping the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: ESRI StorymapThis is a developing story. The maps and charts below are updated daily.
- COVID-19: Our World in Data (University of Oxford)The purpose of this article on COVID-19 is to aggregate existing research, bring together the relevant data and allow readers to make sense of the published data and early research on the coronavirus outbreak. (by Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, University of Oxford)
- Tracking COVID-19 Excess Deaths Across CountriesCOVID-19 published death tolls tend to under-count the true number of fatalities, as many patients may not have been tested. This dashboard tracks "excess mortality" - the gap between actual number of deaths and expected number of deaths based on historical averages.
- GitHub for the Economist's tracker for COVID-19 excess deathsThis repository contains the data behind The Economist’s tracker
- COVID-19 Community Mobility ReportsFrom Google: The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.
- COVID-19 #Coronavirus Data PackA series of data visualizations from the website Information Is Beautiful
- HealthMap Animated SpreadShows the spread across the globe by week.
Data Sets
- Epidemiological Data from the COVID-19 Outbreak in CanadaFrom the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group
- COVID-19, A data perspectiveFrom Statistics Canada
- Detailed preliminary information on confirmed cases of COVID-19 (Revised), Public Health Agency of CanadaFrom Statistics Canada. In collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), this table provides Canadians and researchers with preliminary data to monitor only the confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Canada. Given the rapidly-evolving nature of this situation, these data are considered preliminary.
- Deaths in Long Term Care in Canada by facilityCrowdsourced data from Nora Loreto
- Guide to COVID-19 Time Series Data (Preliminary)This guide focuses primarily on government-collected data sources on testing, incidence and outcomes of COVID 19 cases in Canada and includes selective coverage of international sources. Data were selected based on good source data and those with known and rigourous data collection methods. It is not meant to be a comprehensive list of sources related to COVID 19 (e.g., impacts, or secondary uses of data).
Authors: Susan Mowers, University of Ottawa, and Alexandra Cooper, Queen's University. - COVID-19 Demographic ReportingWhat kind of demographic data are reported in official Canadian COVID19 reports?
- Open Government and COVID-19Using the open government principles of transparency, accountability and citizen participation, we are working to support an open response and recovery to COVID-19.
- Detailed preliminary data on confirmed cases of COVID-19, January 15, 2020 to August 8, 2021 (revised data)Released: 2021-08-13
An updated set of preliminary data on the number of confirmed novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases reported by provincial and territorial public health authorities to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is now available. Along with this dataset are two aggregated tables that summarize the information available in the dataset. The updated information covers the period from January 15, 2020 to August 8, 2021. - Percentage of workforce anticipated to continue to primarily telework once the COVID-19 pandemic is overPercentage of workforce anticipated to continue to primarily telework once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2021.
- COVID-19 Rapid Test kit usage over the last month, third quarter of 2021COVID-19 Rapid Test kit usage over the last month, third quarter of 2021, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2021.
- Testing for COVID-19 in vaccinated populationsPublished: 2021-08-21
This report presents evidence-informed recommendations for testing a vaccinated population and vaccinated individuals. - Canadian Social Survey – Well-being, Unpaid Work and Family TimeReleased 2022-02-22
Working from home, satisfaction with family time, and work-life balance, data from the Canadian Social Survey.
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) VaccinationsFrom Our World in Data. data sets
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and ControlDownload today’s data on the geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide. Data available in several formats
- Johns Hopkins GitHub Repository2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE
- NYT - Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data in the United StatesThe 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.
- List of Coronavirus DatasetsFrom Reddit
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Statistics • UN COVID-19 Data HubThis section makes data relevant to COVID-19 response readily available as geospatial data web services, suitable for the production of maps and other data visualizations and analyses, and easy to download in multiple formats.
- OECD Coronavirus DataVarious data on the impact of coronavirus in OECD countries.
- APIs to Track Coronavirus COVID-19Over the past three months, as COVID-19 has proliferated, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related to the pandemic.
- Daily United States COVID-19 Testing and Outcomes Data By State, March 7, 2020 to March 7, 2021The COVID Tracking Project was a volunteer organization launched from The Atlantic and dedicated to collecting and publishing the data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. Our dataset was in use by national and local news organizations across the United States and by research projects and agencies worldwide.
- COVID-19 Protective Policy Index (PPI) projectThe PPI measures public health government responses to COVID-19 at all levels of government throughout the world. The PPI measure considers the extent of COVID-19 policy responses in the following categories: state of emergencies, border closures, school closures, social gathering and social distancing limitations, home-bound policies, medical isolation policies, closure/restriction of businesses and services, and mandatory personal protection equipment. The coding for public health policies is based on government websites and reputable news sources reporting adoption of these policies. Includes some Canadian data.
- A Twitter Dataset of 100+ million tweets related to COVID-19This dataset will be updated bi-weekly at least with additional tweets, look at the github repo for these updates
- COVID-19-TweetIDsThe repository contains an ongoing collection of tweets IDs associated with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), which commenced on January 28, 2020.
- Corona Virus (COVID-19) Tweets DatasetFrom IEEE Dataport
- Apple Maps Mobility Trends ReportsLearn about COVID-19 mobility trends in countries/regions and cities. Reports are published daily and reflect requests for directions in Apple Maps.
- Waze COVID-19 Impact DashboardIncludes country and city-level mobility reports.
- COVID-19 Twitter Pandemic ArchiveFrom Social Media Lab. Original announcement
- COVID19MisInfo.org PortalThe COVID19MisInfo.org Portal is a rapid response project of the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto, Canada. The project is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Compute Canada and the World Health organization (WHO). The aim of this project is to study the nature and scale of COVID-19 misinformation and to serve as a hub for infodemic research.
- First results of national COVID-19 study from Vox Pop LabsNew waves will be fielded every 72 hours in an effort to continuously monitor public reactions to new information in the hopes of informing and evaluating measures being put into place in response to the virus. This on-going research is a collaboration between Vox Pop Labs, MASS LBP, and public health researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
- COVID-19 Carelessness: Which Canadians say pandemic threat is ‘overblown’? And how are they behaving in turn?From Angus Reid. March 30, 2020
Tracking Maps / Data
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