README.md

metadata

pretty_name: RSV Forecast Hub — RSV hospital admissions target
license: cc0-1.0
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
tags:
  - cadence-weekly
  - geo-us
  - surveillance-respiratory
  - pathogen-rsv
  - tier-2
  - availability-open
schema_version: '0.1'
source_id: rsv-forecast-hub
source_url: https://github.com/CDCgov/rsv-forecast-hub
manifest_section: §4.3
surveillance_category: respiratory
pathogens:
  - rsv
availability: open
availability_notes: null
access_type: github
tier: 2
cadence: weekly
geography_levels:
  - national
  - subnational-state
geography_countries:
  - US
gold_standard_for: []
vintaged_version_of: null
succeeds: null
derived_from:
  - nhsn-hrd
vintaging:
  mode: full
  granularity: weekly
value_columns:
  - name: value
    unit: admissions/week
    value_type: incident
    description: Confirmed RSV hospital admissions for the epiweek (hub scoring target)
    aggregation: sum
notes:
  extra_columns:
    - column: target
      description: >-
        Hubverse target identifier (e.g. 'wk inc rsv hosp'). Mostly a single
        constant value, kept for traceability.
    - column: location_name
      description: Location name as published; `location_id` is canonical.
  interpretation_caveats:
    - column: value
      caveat: >-
        RSV mandatory reporting started 2024-W46; pre-2024-W46 values may be NaN
        or sparsely populated.
  general: |
    Truth-only ingest, parquet source.
extra:
  hub_format_note: Hubverse
computed:
  last_ingested: '2026-04-26T12:49:17Z'
  row_count: 462135
  time_coverage:
    - start: '2022-10-01'
      end: '2026-04-18'
  geography_unit_count: 53
  observed_cadence_days: 7
  missing_gaps: []
  data_hash: 2633d68cbf099adb

RSV Forecast Hub — RSV hospital admissions target

Truth-only ingest, parquet source.

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

Coverage

• Time: 2022-10-01 → 2026-04-18
• Cadence: weekly (observed median spacing: 7 days)
• Geography levels: national, subnational-state — 53 unique location IDs
• Countries: US
• Pathogens: rsv
• Surveillance category: respiratory
• Rows: 462,135

Columns

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

Additional data columns

• target — Hubverse target identifier (e.g. 'wk inc rsv hosp'). Mostly a single constant value, kept for traceability.
• location_name — Location name as published; location_id is canonical.

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 — RSV mandatory reporting started 2024-W46; pre-2024-W46 values may be NaN or sparsely populated.

Related datasets in EPI-Eval

• Derived from: nhsn-hrd

Access

• Availability: open
• Access type: github
• License: cc0-1.0
• Tier: 2

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Schema version 0.1 · Last ingested 2026-04-26T12:49:17Z · source_id: rsv-forecast-hub · Manifest section §4.3