Tracking the COVID-19 Pandemic

After my county instituted a shelter-in-place lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic (caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus), I was curious to know how bad the situation was. The nonpartisan website usafacts.org/ publishes national, state, and county level data for the United States, and provides a substantial amount of information for making your own calculations and conclusions.

I am particularly interested in the change rate, the change in the number of new cases of COVID-19 per day. This simple calculation gives an estimate of how quickly the virus is spreading, and whether measures put in place to curb the disease are working.

I intend to add other metrics to this project, such as R0 calculations and forecasting.

Open the tracking tool in a separate window here. GitHub repository here.