EPI-Eval/covid19-forecast-hub

COVID-19 Forecast Hub — hospital admissions target

Truth-only ingest. Model forecasts are a different shape and live in model-output/; handle separately.

Source: https://github.com/CDCgov/covid19-forecast-hub

Coverage

• Time: 2024-11-09 → 2026-04-18
• Cadence: weekly (observed median spacing: 7 days)
• Geography levels: national, subnational-state — 53 unique location IDs
• Countries: US
• Pathogens: sars-cov-2
• Surveillance category: respiratory
• Rows: 4,028

Columns

Column	Unit	value_type	Aggregation	Description
value	admissions/week	incident	sum	Confirmed COVID-19 hospital admissions for the epiweek (hub scoring target)

Additional data columns

• location_name — State postal code as published. location_id is FIPS / US.

Interpretation caveats

Things that may differ from how other sources define a similar measure. If you're combining this dataset with another, read these first.

• value — Mirrors NHSN HRD with hub-side freezing applied — single value per (date, location). Use NHSN HRD directly for the un-frozen series.

Related datasets in EPI-Eval

• Derived from: nhsn-hrd

Access

• Availability: open
• Access type: github
• License: cc0-1.0
• Tier: 1

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Schema version 0.1 · Last ingested 2026-04-26T12:48:43Z · source_id: covid19-forecast-hub · Manifest section §4.2