COVID-19 Data on Cases, Hospitalization, and Death Rates
The year 2020 has been the start of a new finding of the Coronavirus making it a very difficult year for everyone. The pandemic has prevented us from being socially engaged in our environment and even from seeing our loved ones. This was the start of everyone practicing social distancing. Since the pandemic being new has made people afraid and uncertain of their next steps and how the future will look.
The major difference in this dataset is that the case, death, and hospitalization corresponding rates per 100,000 population aren’t those for the single date indicated. These are averages for the seven-day period ending on that date.
Many looking at the rates of what is really happening in the pandemic. Having people realize the coronavirus total cases, hospitalization, and deaths really made people scared and aware of the seriousness. Many have experienced many new different feelings and actions when there was no pandemic.
According to an analysis of Google Search Data, at the start of October, there was a huge rise where up until February the data presents a repeated rise and decrease of cases total from the Chicago population. Now looking at the COVID-19 hospitalization helped people realize there may be a stop to the pandemic. The death rate has been pretty stable with not much rise which gave hope for people to believe the Coronavirus can be stopped with the right actions.
Cases with a positive molecular (PCR) or antigen test are included in this dataset. Deaths among cases are aggregated by day of death. Hospitalizations are reported by the date of first hospital admission. Demographic data are based on what is reported by medical providers or collected by CDPH during the follow-up investigation.
Information is updated as additional details are received. Meaning it is, very common for recent dates to be incomplete and to be updated as time goes on. This dataset at any time reflects cases and deaths currently known to CDPH. Numbers in this dataset may differ from other public sources due to definitions of COVID-19-related cases and deaths, sources used, how cases and deaths are associated with a specific date.
Denominators are from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 1-year estimate for 2018 and can be seen in the Citywide, 2018 row of the Chicago Population Counts dataset:
