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