| --- |
| 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* |
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