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Incident COVID-19 hospitalizations indexed by the date of positive test (reference date) and report date from Germany in 2021 and 2022.

germany_covid19_hosp.Rd

Incident COVID-19 hospitalizations indexed by the date of positive test (reference date) and report date from Germany in 2021 and 2022.

Usage

germany_covid19_hosp

Format

A data.frame with 140,630 rows and 6 columns.

reference_date

Date of first positive COVID-19 test.

location

Character string indicating the location of the case counts

age_group

Character string indicating the age group of the case counts.

delay

Integer specifying the delay, in days, between the reference date and the report date

count

Integer indicating the number of cases indexed by reference and report date.

report_date

Date of case report

Source

This data comes directly from the preprocessed data in the German COVID-19 Nowcast Hub from https://github.com/KITmetricslab/hospitalization-nowcast-hub/blob/main/data-truth/COVID-19/COVID-19_hospitalizations_preprocessed.csv It contains incident case counts by age group in Germany.

References

Johnson KE, Tyszka E, Bracher J, Funk S, Abbott S (2025). baselinenowcast: Methods for baseline nowcasting right-truncated epidemiological data. https://github.com/epinowcast/baselinenowcast/.

See also

Other real-data: denguedat, ebola_sierraleone_2014, flu_h7n9_china_2013, flusight, measles_hagelloch_1861, mers_korea_2015, mpoxdat