diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd index 12958be85..e43900fd6 100644 --- a/README.Rmd +++ b/README.Rmd @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: "covid_rates" +title: "covid_daily_viz" output: github_document --- @@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE) ## Introduction -This is a collection of resources for tracking the COVID-19 outbreak in the Kansas City and St. Louis metropolitan areas. It is currently being actively maintained and updated nightly with new data from the [Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 project](https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19). Summaries of their data for Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois are available in the `data/` folder, and the most recent visualizations are available in the `results/` folder. Historic data prior to March 22nd is now being obtained from the [New York Times COVD-19 project](https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data). +This is a collection of resources for tracking the COVID-19 outbreak in the Kansas City and St. Louis metropolitan areas. It is currently being actively maintained and updated nightly with new data from the [Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 project](https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19). Summaries of their data for Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois are available in the `data/` folder, and the most recent visualizations are available in the `results/` folder. Historic data prior to March 22nd are now being obtained from the [New York Times COVD-19 project](https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data). + +Separately, zip code data are being collected as of 2020-04-01 for the City of St. Louis and 2020-04-06 for St. Louis County. Daily raw data, a single table containing "long" versions of these raw data, and daily snapshots are available in the `data/` folder as well. Maps and plots tracking these in relation to race and poverty are available in `results/`. + +## Notes ### Mortality The Johns Hopkins data contain all known deaths from COVID-19 in the City of St. Louis, beginning with 31-year-old Red Cross employee [Jazmond Dixon on March 23rd](https://www.kmov.com/news/jazmond-dixon-city-s-first-covid--death-was-hardworking/article_e1ce066a-6d3a-11ea-9780-cf42a4d49ace.html). A [St. Charles man in his 70s](https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/live-stl-area-coronavirus-updates-march-here-s-what-we/article_a286c517-46b2-5ac4-ac65-26ff7756aca1.html) died the same day, the first death for that county. The first death in St. Louis County occured several days earlier on [March 20](https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/live-stl-area-coronavirus-updates-march-here-s-what-we/article_183103d8-d6ed-5f64-8f0d-a990479266b5.html), when a women in her 60s passed away. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 092fe132a..8f9b5c26e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -covid\_rates +covid\_daily\_viz ================ ## Introduction @@ -10,10 +10,19 @@ Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 project](https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19). Summaries of their data for Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois are available in the `data/` folder, and the most recent visualizations are available in the -`results/` folder. Historic data prior to March 22nd is now being +`results/` folder. Historic data prior to March 22nd are now being obtained from the [New York Times COVD-19 project](https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data). +Separately, zip code data are being collected as of 2020-04-01 for the +City of St. Louis and 2020-04-06 for St. Louis County. Daily raw data, a +single table containing “long” versions of these raw data, and daily +snapshots are available in the `data/` folder as well. Maps and plots +tracking these in relation to race and poverty are available in +`results/`. + +## Notes + ### Mortality The Johns Hopkins data contain all known deaths from COVID-19 in the @@ -25,8 +34,7 @@ his 70s](https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/live-stl-area-coronavirus-upd died the same day, the first death for that county. The first death in St. Louis County occured several days earlier on [March 20](https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/live-stl-area-coronavirus-updates-march-here-s-what-we/article_183103d8-d6ed-5f64-8f0d-a990479266b5.html), -when a women in her 60s passed -away. +when a women in her 60s passed away. ### Mitigation Measures