Initial ingest — nyt-covid — card update

README.md

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+---
+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*