COVID-19 Databases

This page includes data collections, interactive maps and other interactive data visualization tools, and interactive simulation tools. Resources are listed alphabetically.

AppliedXL COVID-19 Tracker
Mapping tool developed by Newlab, The Boston Globe, and STAT News to highlight hotspots of potential health system failures or gaps in medical supply chains

City of Philadelphia COVID-19 Testing and Data webpage
Philadelphia Department of Public Health data on the COVID-19 pandemic, including demographic data, data on prison populations, nursing home residents, and links to other Philadelphia COVId-19 datasets

CHOP’s COVID-Lab: Mapping COVID-19 in Your Community
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s PolicyLab modeling tool to predict the spread of the virus

Community-level COVID-19 Homelessness Planning & Response Dashboard
Companion web application for report "Estimated Emergency and Observational/Quarantine Capacity Need for the US Homeless Population Related to COVID-19 Exposure by County" for communities to customize estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on their homeless populations and the additional capacity required to manage the crisis

CoreData.nyc
New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center. The interactive data and mapping tool standardizes over 20 datasets from a variety of city, state, and federal sources to present over 100 indicators on New York City’s housing and neighborhoods.

Coronavirus Economic Vulnerability Map
Interactive map that accompanies an April 2020 Initiative for a Competitive Inner City research brief: Not the Great Equalizer: Which Neighborhoods Are Most Economically Vulnerable to the Coronavirus Crisis?

Coronavirus Policy Response Simulator: Health and Economic Effects of State Reopenings
Penn Wharton Budget Model simulator forecasts the state-level health and economic effects of reopening businesses and relaxing stay-at-home orders, updated regularly as new data arrive

COVID-19 Local Action Tracker
Regularly updated database of actions taken by local leaders compiled by NLC and Bloomberg Philanthropies

COVID-19 Response Dashboard
Dashboard developed by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia to inform individual donors and institutional grantmakers; the dashboard collects individual grant award data across multiple funders and visualizes these against census-tract level indicators of community need.

Covid-19 Small Business Relief Programs
Google Doc of efforts in cities for small business relief in response to the economic impact of covid-19, compiled by Living Cities

COVID-19 Symptom Map
Facebook & Carnegie Mellon University’s symptom-mapping tool

Covidcap.com
CASE at Duke University searchable database to help entrepreneur’s worldwide (for-profit or nonprofit) struggling, due to the economic impacts of COVID-19, to locate cash relief resources in their community

EcoHealth Alliance – Emerging Disease Hotspots
A predictive map of disease hotspots

The Emotion Archive
McKinsey & Co interactive graphic on how a sample of people worldwide are reacting to the pandemic

Exposure indices derived from PlaceIQ movement data
Open-source indices describing potential exposure on the basis of smartphone movements, produced by Penn’s Jessie Handbury and researchers at Berkeley, Yale, Princeton, and UChicago

Fiscally Standardized Cities (FiSC) database
Database that makes it possible to compare local government finances for over 200 of the largest U.S. cities across more than 120 categories of revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets, by the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy

Google Community Mobility Reports
Reports by country and by US States that chart movement trends over time by geography and across different categories of places, updated regularly

Inrix – Transportation Trends Visualizations
Uses billions of location-based, anonymous data points to analyze and monitor the impact of COVID-19 on cities, roadways, and businesses

Interactive World Coronavirus Maps
New York Times coronavirus tracking maps

Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering
Global coronavirus pandemic data mapped by Johns Hopkins University

Management Metrics for Cities in the COVID–19 Crisis
Comprehensive set of evidence-based COVID-19 management metrics designed for cities, by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and What Works Cities, brought to you by Bloomberg Philanthropies, originally published June 2020

Metro Recovery Index
Regularly updated Brookings Metro data dashboard revealing how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted metro areas across the labor market, the real estate market, and other areas of economic activity

NACTO: City Transportation Action Updates
Crowdsourced google spreadsheet of cities’ infrastructure-related responses, compiled by National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)

Nextstrain: Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution
Open-source project to harness the scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data with a continually-updated view of publicly available data alongside analytic and visualization tools

NYC Health Data
The most recent information collected by the New York City Department of Health about people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in New York City

Oxford Economics Coronavirus Content Hub 
Collection of reports and analysis by Oxford Economics on the economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic.

Policymap COVID-19 Quick Maps
BETA mapping tool provided by Policymap with data ranging from trends in county level cases and deaths to neighborhood level estimates of underlying health condition

Recession Simulator
Penn Wharton Budget Model simulator uses the experience of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 as a template to simulate key economic indicators during a recession beginning in March, 2020

Social distancing scorecard
Social distancing mapping tool developed by Unacast

The Color of Coronavirus: Covid-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
APM Research Lab visualization and analysis of data on race and ethnicity for 38 states that are reporting, updated regularly

The State of Working America Data Library 
Historical data on the American labor force compiled from Economic Policy Institute analysis of government data sources

Track the Economy
Data tracker that gives a neighborhood-by-neighborhood view of the effects of COVID-19 on the economy, built by Harvard’s Raj Chetty

Unemployment Claims Monitor from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Data on initial and continued claims for unemployment insurance as well as claimants' demographic data, including claimants in the Short-Time Compensation (Workshare), Extended Benefits, State Additional Benefits, Federal Employee, and Ex-Service Member programs. Updated every Thursday.

Urban Health Vulnerability Index
Mapping tool to help local governments and health planners identify urban populations at high risk for COVID-19, developed by RS21

WHO: Understanding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic through data
An array of real-time data, statistical indicators, and other types of data drawn from the World Bank’s data catalog and other authoritative sources

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