Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

May 4, 2020

CovidCounties – an Interactive Real-Time Tracker of the COVID-19 Pandemic at the Level of US Counties

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  • Arneson et al. report on the development of CovidCounties.org, an interactive web-based application that depicts daily disease trends at the US county level. Accompanying the application is a manually curated data set of all major public policy actions at the state level. Data for the website was primarily derived from The New York Times, the US Census, and Kaiser Health News. Manually curated data were obtained from the websites of multiple state departments of health.  
  • Data and tools incorporated into CovidCounties support the effectiveness of social distancing. 
  • The code for CovidCounties is available open source, unlike other COVID-19 dashboards. 

Arneson et al. (May 2, 2020). CovidCounties – an Interactive Real-Time Tracker of the COVID-19 Pandemic at the Level of US Counties. Pre–print downloaded May 4 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.28.20083279