COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths by Connecticut County

COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths (By County) - ARCHIVE contains daily counts of confirmed and probable cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for Connecticut counties. The data is published by data.ct.gov and was last updated on August 2, 2023. It includes metrics such as total case rate and county codes, with data sourced from the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Connecticut Hospital Association.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in Total cases, Hospitalized cases, and Total deaths by County and Date updated.
• Compare disease severity across counties using Total case rate, Confirmed deaths, and Probable deaths.
• Model hospitalization burden by correlating Hospitalized cases with Confirmed cases and Probable cases over time.

Strengths

• Includes 11 columns of key epidemiological metrics such as Confirmed cases, Hospitalized cases, and Total deaths.
• Data is sourced from official state health agencies (DPH, OCME) and the Connecticut Hospital Association.
• Covers data from the beginning of the pandemic, providing a longitudinal view.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata indicates this is an ARCHIVE dataset, with newer data published in separate tables as of June 2022.
• Data for towns with fewer than 5 cases over 7 days is suppressed, which may limit granular analysis.

Provenance

Source

data.ct.gov / Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH), Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), Connecticut Hospital Association.

Collection Method

Cases and tests by date of sample submission; deaths by date of death from the Connecticut Deaths Registry; hospitalizations collected by the Connecticut Hospital Association.

Time Range

From the beginning of the pandemic to at least June 2022 for this archive; specific end date unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2023-08-02 15:01:42; freshness should be verified as the description notes a data restructuring in June 2022.

Geography

Connecticut, United States, at the county level.