Fetch daily COVID cases by state for United States of America

Fetches daily COVID cases by state or county collated by the New York Times Data is available at https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data

get_us_regional_cases(level = "state", out = "timeseries")

Arguments

level	Character String specifying admin level "state", "county", default: "state".
out	Character String specifying output data format "timeseries", "total", default: "timeseries".

Value

A data.frame of COVID cases by region in the US

Examples

get_us_regional_cases(level = 'state', out = 'timeseries')
#> # A tibble: 4,689 x 5
#>    date       state      fips  cases deaths
#>    <date>     <chr>      <chr> <dbl>  <dbl>
#>  1 2020-01-21 Washington 53        0      0
#>  2 2020-01-22 Washington 53        0      0
#>  3 2020-01-23 Washington 53        0      0
#>  4 2020-01-24 Illinois   17        0      0
#>  5 2020-01-24 Washington 53        0      0
#>  6 2020-01-25 California 06        0      0
#>  7 2020-01-25 Illinois   17        0      0
#>  8 2020-01-25 Washington 53        0      0
#>  9 2020-01-26 Arizona    04        0      0
#> 10 2020-01-26 California 06        1      0
#> # … with 4,679 more rows

if (FALSE) {

 regions <- rnaturalearth::ne_states("United States of America", returnclass = "sf")

 cases <- get_us_regional_cases(out = 'total')

 regions %>% dplyr::filter(name %in% cases$state) %>%
 ggplot2::ggplot() + ggplot2::geom_sf()

}