This AMA is now closed. Thank you everyone for the great discussion today. For more data on how the pandemic is affecting the US, check out our Coronavirus issues page: https://usafacts.org/issues/coronavirus/.

EDIT: We want to apologize for the misleading title of this AMA. While we are proud of our visualization showing coronavirus cases in the US, we want to recognize there are a number of other county-level visualizations out there. We want this AMA to focus on the data we have collected, which has been used by a number of entities including the CDC and the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Hi Reddit!

As coronavirus started to spread across the country earlier this year, measuring that spread proved nearly impossible. Without a single source tracking new cases at a granular level, understanding COVID-19’s growth would be difficult.

But gathering the resources to make a tracking map was also difficult. Local governments have disparate methods for collecting and reporting data. For all the numbers on cases and deaths to end up standardized in one place, a bespoke data solution needed to be built from the ground up. USAFacts started making phone calls and scraping data from county websites. The result was one of the first county-level COVID-19 tracker in the US.

The USAFacts Coronavirus Hub is now being used by Dr. Deborah Birx and the White House Coronavirus Task Force. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses our data to power the county maps on its own website. Dozens more government entities at all levels use it, and nonprofits like Feeding America consult it to determine where the need for nutritional assistance is greatest.

We are the product team from USAFacts. Ask us anything about aggregating data from hundreds of county, regional, and state governments, plus how our coronavirus data is being used!

Proof: https://twitter.com/USAFacts/status/1263540542660423680 and https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/

Sourced by: CDC - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/county-map.html

ESPN - https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29175321/how-major-league-baseball-finding-narrow-way-back-field-coronavirus-pandemic

Edit:

We are releasing a public (free!) API soon, but in the meantime, these csvs are updated nightly.

you can find our confirmed case data here: https://usafactsstatic.blob.core.windows.net/public/data/covid-19/covid_confirmed_usafacts.csv

and deaths here: https://usafactsstatic.blob.core.windows.net/public/data/covid-19/covid_deaths_usafacts.csv

This AMA is now closed. Thank you everyone for the great discussion today. For more data on how the pandemic is affecting the US, check out our Coronavirus issues page: https://usafacts.org/issues/coronavirus/.