---
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*