metadata
pretty_name: NYT COVID-19 — US county daily
license: other
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
tags:
- cadence-daily
- geo-us
- surveillance-respiratory
- pathogen-sars-cov-2
- tier-3
- availability-open
schema_version: '0.1'
source_id: nyt-covid
source_url: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
manifest_section: §16.5
surveillance_category: respiratory
pathogens:
- sars-cov-2
availability: open
availability_notes: >-
NYT custom license — non-commercial use ok, commercial use requires
permission.
access_type: github
tier: 3
cadence: daily
geography_levels:
- subnational-county
geography_countries:
- US
gold_standard_for: []
vintaged_version_of: null
succeeds: null
derived_from: []
value_columns:
- name: cases
unit: cases (cumulative)
value_type: cumulative
description: Cumulative confirmed + probable COVID-19 cases since pandemic start
aggregation: max
- name: deaths
unit: deaths (cumulative)
value_type: cumulative
description: Cumulative confirmed + probable COVID-19 deaths since pandemic start
aggregation: max
notes:
extra_columns:
- column: location_name
description: >-
NYT-supplied county + state name. Useful for traceability when a FIPS
code resolves ambiguously (e.g. NYC's five boroughs collapsed into a
single 'New York City' row).
interpretation_caveats:
- column: cases
caveat: >
Cumulative — diff to recover incident. NYT collapses the five NYC
boroughs (FIPS 36005, 36047, 36061, 36081, 36085)
into a synthetic 'New York City' row that this ingest **drops** (no
FIPS). Pre-2020-08 some rural counties were
bundled with neighbours; the README documents the carve-outs.
general: >
Archived March 2023. Useful as an early-pandemic baseline at county
granularity
when nothing finer than state was available from federal sources.
extra:
source_columns_omitted: 0
archive_note: >-
Series stops 2023-03-23; the upstream maintained the file but no longer
updates it.
computed:
last_ingested: '2026-04-26T12:49:03Z'
row_count: 2479154
time_coverage:
- start: '2020-01-21'
end: '2022-05-13'
geography_unit_count: 3220
observed_cadence_days: 1
missing_gaps: []
data_hash: a040b3fa14225d93
NYT COVID-19 — US county daily
Archived March 2023. Useful as an early-pandemic baseline at county granularity when nothing finer than state was available from federal sources.
Source: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
Coverage
- Time: 2020-01-21 → 2022-05-13
- Cadence:
daily(observed median spacing: 1 days) - Geography levels:
subnational-county— 3220 unique location IDs - Countries: US
- Pathogens:
sars-cov-2 - Surveillance category:
respiratory - Rows: 2,479,154
Columns
| Column | Unit | value_type | Aggregation | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
cases |
cases (cumulative) | cumulative |
max |
Cumulative confirmed + probable COVID-19 cases since pandemic start |
deaths |
deaths (cumulative) | cumulative |
max |
Cumulative confirmed + probable COVID-19 deaths since pandemic start |
Additional data columns
location_name— NYT-supplied county + state name. Useful for traceability when a FIPS code resolves ambiguously (e.g. NYC's five boroughs collapsed into a single 'New York City' row).
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.
cases— Cumulative — diff to recover incident. NYT collapses the five NYC boroughs (FIPS 36005, 36047, 36061, 36081, 36085) into a synthetic 'New York City' row that this ingest drops (no FIPS). Pre-2020-08 some rural counties were bundled with neighbours; the README documents the carve-outs.
Access
- Availability:
open - Access type:
github - License: other
- Tier: 3
Schema version 0.1 · Last ingested 2026-04-26T12:49:03Z · source_id: nyt-covid · Manifest section §16.5