Over months, our journalists have recorded the details on newly confirmed cases as reported by state and local officials. “We believe the data may help reveal how Covid-19 has spread through communities and clusters which geographic areas may be hit the hardest and how its spread in hard-hit areas may offer clues for regions that could face wider outbreaks in the future.” “We hope the dataset can help inform the ongoing public health response to the pandemic and ultimately, save lives,” said Dean Baquet, executive editor, The New York Times.
The Times is committed to collecting as much data as possible in connection with the outbreak and is collaborating with the University of California, Berkeley, on an effort in California.īy Friday, March 27, The Times had tracked more than 85,000 cases in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and three U.S. The Times led effort has grown from a handful of correspondents to a team of several dozen journalists, including data scientists and student journalists from Northwestern University, the University of Missouri and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, working around the clock to record details about every case. The Times initially began tracking cases in late January after it became clear that no federal government agency was providing the public with an accurate, up-to-date record of cases, tracked to the county level, of people in the U.S. Today, The New York Times has made one of the most comprehensive datasets of coronavirus cases in the United States publicly available in response to requests from researchers, scientists, government officials and businesses who would like access to the data to better understand the virus and model what may come next.
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