lcombs / covid_sas

This repository builds a COVID Data Brief.

COVID SAS Project

This repository builds a COVID Data Brief.

Introduction:

At the beginning of 2020, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 spread across the globe, resulting in a pandemic. The virus continued to spread within the United States in June 2020. This data brief describes trends in confirmed cases and hospitalization rates in the United States. The data originates from a study completed in the first week of June from June 1 through June 7, 2020 at the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins . The data brief examines the trends in confirmed cases, new confirmed cases per day, and the average hospitalization rate at the national, regional , and state or territory levels. Data is available for the 50 U.S. states, six territories, and two cruise ships.

Data Source:

• The data containing the 2019 Novel Coronavirus cases was originally retrieved at https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19.
• The repository is operated by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering and supported by ESRI Living Atlas Team and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.
• The codebook is available at https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/README.md.
• The regional source was obtained from https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf, which categorizes U.S. states into four regions.

Data Brief:

• Please view the Data Brief for summarized results.
• SAS code is available for review in the .sas file.