New York State COVID-19 Contact Tracing Metrics by Week

Health.data.ny.gov provides weekly and cumulative metrics on COVID-19 contact tracing efforts for New York State, excluding New York City. The dataset includes counts of cases reported, cases reached, contacts elicited, and contacts reached. The data is no longer updated as of November 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in contact elicitation and reach rates over time using `Week`, `Total Contacts Elicited`, and `Total Contacts Reached`.
• Model the relationship between reported cases and successful case outreach using `Total Cases Reported` and `Percent Cases Reached`.
• Assess weekly performance of the contact tracing initiative by comparing `Percent Cases Reached` and `Percent Contacts Reached` from the `Reporting Week`.
• Calculate cumulative program metrics for reporting periods using columns suffixed with `To Date`, such as `Total Contacts Reached To Date`.

Strengths

• Provides 16 distinct columns for analyzing contact tracing program performance.
• Data is available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
• Includes both weekly and cumulative metrics for longitudinal analysis.

Limitations

• Last updated 2022-11-02 22:41:09; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description notes early data may be incomplete, representing only selected local health departments.

Provenance

Source

health.data.ny.gov

Collection Method

Likely collected from local health departments (LHDs) as part of the state's COVID-19 contact tracing initiative.

Freshness

Last updated 2022-11-02 22:41:09; dataset is no longer updated.

Geography

New York State, excluding New York City.