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nytimes / covid-19-data

covid-19-data

A repository of data on coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S.

13Distinct people
15Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
7KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A repository of data on coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month15 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-03-27 12:35:15 UTC to 2021-10-10 12:48:50 UTC.

02462020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 commentsMar 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC615
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC303
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20212021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20212021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20212021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20212021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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What the linked study [1] is saying is that unvaccinated people who get COVID-19 are even more likely to get Myocarditis than vaccinated people; it counters the allegation that people should not get vaccinated because of the risk of Myocarditis. Even if the vaccine increased the risk (it doesn’t), the risk of COVID-19 is orders of magnitude higher than the risk of the Myocarditis heart condition. There have been, from the total of 12,910,312 18-24 year-old people vaccinated, [2] about 229 cases of this rare heart disease (and, in almost all cases, the person was discharged from the hospital the same day with a clean bill of health) That means the vaccine has under a 0.002% chance of causing a very rare but not fatal heart condition. [3] COVID-19, on the other hand, has an overall 1.66% chance of killing someone (38,043,754 cases, 629,644
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deaths). [4] I would rather take a 0.002% non-fatal risk than a 1.66% fatal risk. Sources: [1] i.e. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.23.21260998v... “Young males infected with the virus are up 6 times more likely to develop myocarditis as those who have received the vaccine.” [2] https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st... [3] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/evidence-grows-st... [4] https://samiam.org/COVID-19/ derived from https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/
In Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection
Thanks! I think your viewpoint is one shared by lots of people for valid reasons, so hopefully I'm not coming across as too argumentative or whatever. But on the other hand stakes are high, so I don't want to sugarcoat anything either. > Have the fit and healthy passed from COVID? Absolutely, albeit at a staggeringly lower rate than others. The end of this argument is "the mortality rate for X people is/isn't worth response Y", e.g. "the mortality rate for fit people isn't worth lockdowns for everyone". This seems like a good analysis to engage in, but it isn't, because you can't pick who gets COVID-19. The rejoinder here is "it is worth lockdowns for everyone because fit people can still infect other groups with a much higher mortality rate with COVID-19." Another rejoinder would be "the current mortality rate is 1-2%, which means if we'
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re all infected millions of people die." > On the site I acknowledge asymptomatic transmission of COVID. If I am worried about getting sick then I should be taking all possible precautions to minimize my risk including self isolation, etc. You are essentially saying you accept the risk of contracting COVID-19 and infecting others. I think that's the crucial point you're missing: infecting others. You may be in a position to make that choice for yourself, but many others aren't and can't avoid you. They could be essential workers, or dealing with a situation that forces them to take a risk. Many, many health workers or their family members have died because people like you infected them with COVID-19 after they got sick and sought care. Many of them quarantine themselves away from their families during outbreaks for exactly this reason. Please reconsider your stance here. > A large part of my personal motivation for starting this in the first place is because of the terrible way the media currently reports COVID which is almost exclusively through number of confirmed cases. I'd argue that stat means very little. But your chief data source, the New York Times, is already doing this. Their README [1] gives the exact same motivation you do. The difference is they don't highlight a stat that downplays the severity of the pandemic. Given this, I think your site is deeply misleading, and a prospective user would gain more valuable insight simply by loading the NYT's CSV into Google Sheets. > It's really straightforward to not be significantly overweight and workout 2-3 days per week. It may be for you, but many others struggle with weight for completely valid reasons (disability, mental illness, hormone disorders, metabolic and dietary disorders) and you can't distinguish them in the grocery store. I would also argue more broadly that we shouldn't value the lives of the overweight of obese less than others, no matter the cause. It's also worth saying that while you keep focusing on obesity as the chief comorbidity, in truth it's age, and no amount of personal responsibility can let you avoid that (the opposite, actually). --- I don't want to imply that I don't want to get back to life. Despite being misanthropic and super privileged, lockdowns and precautions haven't been wonderful for me--and it's been even worse for people I'm close to. But to be blunt, your position is selfish. I urge you to change your behavior. Many people and their loved ones are vulnerable to COVID-19 through no fault of their own, and you are putting them in danger. We should have vaccines in the next few months. It doesn't feel like that much to ask to try and stay in your home as much as possible, wear masks and socially distance when you can't, and wash your hands frequently until then. Compared to the potential consequences, I just can't see any justification for not doing so. [1]: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data#methodology-and-def...
In U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come
Hi all, we thought it might be interesting to point our spreadsheet integration tool at some of the COVID-19 data repos on GitHub. So, basically you get all the data from these repos with a single function in Excel/Google Sheets. For example: =FLEX("covid-19-cases-jhu", "country_region, province_state, date, confirmed, active", "+Illinois", "limit=500") Here’s a short overview video that shows it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxeP0wFqcqc We have integrations for the GitHub repos for Johns Hopkins [1], New York Times [2] and Our World in Data [3]. Everything is (nearly) instantly filterable using Lucene Query Syntax [4]. We'd love to get your feedback; let us know if you have any questions. Thnx! [1] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 [2] https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data [3] https://github.com/owid/covid-1
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In Show HN: Instantly search and filter Covid-19 data in Excel and Google Sheets
Hi all, we thought it might be interesting to point our spreadsheet integration tool at some of the COVID-19 data repos on GitHub. So, basically you get all the data from these repos with a single function in Excel/Google Sheets. For example: =FLEX("covid-19-cases-jhu", "country_region, province_state, date, confirmed, active", "+Illinois", "limit=500") Here’s a short overview video that shows it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxeP0wFqcqc We have integrations for the GitHub repos for Johns Hopkins [1], New York Times [2] and Our World in Data [3]. Everything is (nearly) instantly filterable using Lucene Query Syntax [4]. We'd love to get your feedback; let us know if you have any questions. Thnx! [1] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 [2] https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data [3] https://github.com/owid/covid-1
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In Show HN: Instantly search and filter Covid-19 data in Excel and Google Sheets
Neat, so come back in a few months. Also, I haven't got a clue who John Cardillo is, but that tweet doesn't really say much other than he thinks something is a scam. The 37k currently reported at the CDC link corresponds to the deaths reported for ~12 days ago at https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/us.csv, so it isn't clear that the discrepancy is not largely explained by the lag to process death certificates. EDIT: I looked at some of his other tweets, and it seems like he is upset that the count here from the National Vital Statistics System https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm doesn't match the count here https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case..., and interprets that to mean that the CDC is lying to the U.S. population. I disagree with that assessment, and the CDC explains the NVSS
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data here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/tech_notes.htm: > Provisional death counts in this report will not match counts in other sources, such as media reports or numbers from county health departments. John Cardillo says that "You’ve been misled while lunatics try to destroy your county and steal your way of life" (presumably he means "country"?), the CDC explains the discrepancy. I'll go with the CDC.
In Miscalculation at every level left U.S. unequipped to fight coronavirus
I'm going to take this opportunity to promote my current principal project, Datasette. https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Datasette aims to reduce the gap between "I have some data" and "I have a useful JSON API for it" as much as possible. I think it does this really well. A timely example: the first version of this API for interacting with data about the COVID-19 pandemic took me just a few minutes to build AND deploy: https://covid-19.datasettes.com/ - it uses data pulled hourly from https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 and https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data Here's JSON for the number of reported cases and deaths in California (served with a CORS header so you can call it from other pages): https://covid-19.datasettes.com/covid/ny_times_us_states.jso... And here's data showing the number of NEW cases per day report
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In Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data This shows an "unexpected" inflection point starting March 28 which slowed the USA death growth from 2.7 day doubling to 3.4 days doubling. Even at that slower rate 900 million Americans would be dead by the end of May, so obviously there will be a major slowdown in deaths over the next 8 weeks. https://neherlab.org/covid19/ indicates maybe sometime between July and October things will normalize (ICU's will no longer be over capacity). https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/ The phase space plot from Johns Hopkins dataset still shows no recent improvement of trajectory, in contrast to the NYT dataset.
In Ask HN: When do you expect life will get back to “normal”?

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