COVID-19 infection cases and deaths in the United States
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The New York Times
Publication Date:
2020/01/21 - 2020/11/03
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Dataset Description:
This dataset, compiled and maintained by The New York Times, contains daily counts of COVID-19 cases and deaths at the county level in the United States. It was used in the study "Accounting for partisanship and politicization: Employing Benford's Law to examine misreporting of COVID-19 infection cases and deaths in the United States" to assess potential misreporting of COVID-19 statistics. The dataset spans from early 2020 onwards and includes columns such as date, county, state, FIPS code, cumulative cases, and cumulative deaths.
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