Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

This guide is a living document. More content will be added as new information and resources become available and as the COVID-19 situation develops.

While the guide provides up-to-date information on the COVID-19 pandemic, it should not be construed as advice or as a substitute for consulting a doctor. Information on Capilano University's response to COVID-19 and Health Resources are available on the university website.

• COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and Capilano University's response
• Health Resources

Getting Started

• A brief overview of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) including drug treatments, case definitions, infection control and diagnostic tests.
  • Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Relevant definitions, abbreviations and acronyms for the virus, disease, medical terminology and health agencies.
  • Coronavirus Glossary of Terms

On this page

Canada - National Resources   |   Canada - Provincial Resources   |   Canada - Geospatial Data   |   Canada - Surveys  |   United States   |   United States - Surveys  |   World   |  World - Collected Datasets   |   World - Genomic Data   |  World - Geospatial Data  |  World - Surveys

• Canadian COVID-19 resources including the latest data and relevant publications:
  • Statistics Canada - COVID-19: A Data Perspective
    • Preliminary dataset on confirmed cases of COVID-19, Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Canadian Economic Dashboard and COVID-19
    • Canadian Perspectives Survey Series (CPSS)
  • Government of Canada: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Epidemiology update
  • Public Health Agency of Canada, Surveillance and Risk Assessment, Epidemiology update

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Northwest Territories
• Nova Scotia
• Nunavut
• Prince Edward Island
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan
• Yukon

• GIS Hub provided by Esri Canada to share information about the coronavirus pandemic. Information sources include the Community Map of Canada, the Living Atlas, Environics Analytics and others.
  • COVID-19 Canada Resources (Esri)

• Surveys examining Canadians' reactions to the coronavirus pandemic and policy responses.
  • Vox Pop Labs Public Opinion Survey

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - National Center for Health Statistics. Note that collection practices for the CDC altered on July 15, 2020 (see COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting).
  • COVID-19 Case Surveillance Public Use Data
  • Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - COVID Data Tracker
  • COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States​
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Coronavirus
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
• COVID-19 Community Profile Report - county-level data on COVID-19 test counts, positivity rates, and delays.
  • COVID-19 Community Profile Report
• The COVID Tracking Project is a volunteer organization dedicated to collecting and publishing the data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. After March 2021 they are no longer collecting data.
  • The COVID Tracking Project - Homepage
  • The COVID Racial Data Tracker
• SARS-CoV-2 (hCoV-19) Mutation Situation Reports: The CViSB Team at Scripps Research is tracking the prevalence of several lineages or sets of mutations within the SARS-CoV-2 (hCoV-19) genome. They regularly produce a report describing the current situation, focusing on the United States.
  • SARS-CoV-2 (hCoV-19) Mutation Situation Reports
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME): Forecasts showing demand for hospital services, daily and cumulative deaths due to COVID-19, rates of infection and testing, and the impact of social distancing, organized by country and state (for select locations).
  • COVID-19 resources
• New York Times: a series of data files with cumulative counts of coronavirus cases in the United States, at the state and county level, over time. 
  • Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data in the United States
• University of Washington: routinely-maintained data repository for US state-level distancing policies to COVID 19.
  • State-level social distancing policies in response to COVID-19 in the US

• Roper Center: archived survey data collected via traditional survey methods as well as more recently developed methods, such as non-probability samples. 
  • Supporting Public Opinion Data Related to COVID-19
• The Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University conducts research surveys to monitor the spread and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
  • COVIDcast Survey Results

• World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Weekly Epidemiological Update and Weekly Operational Update
  • Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) 
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: updated daily and contains the latest available public data on COVID-19. 
  • Situation updates on COVID-19 
• European Union Open Data Portal: various datasets from the EU/EEA and the UK, and worldwide.
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus data
• Statista
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease pandemic- Statistics & Facts
• Our World in Data
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations
• Imperial College London: provides behavioural analysis on how different populations are responding to the pandemic, helping public health bodies in their efforts to limit the impact of the disease.
  • YouGov Covid 19 Behaviour Tracker Data Hub
  • Data visualization dashboard
• Johns Hopkins University: COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE)
  • CSSEGISandData/COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases
• Milken Institute - FasterCures
  • COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Tracker
• Our World in Data (University of Oxford and Global Change Data Lab): Various data sets and visualization, updated daily.
  • Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research
• Tableau COVID 19 Data Hub
  • Data visualization

• Google: a repository of public datasets that relate to the COVID-19 crisis. Includes data from New York Times, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Google, Global Health Data from the World Bank, and OpenStreetMap.
  • COVID-19 Public Datasets Program
• OpenAire: aggregates COVID-19 records (publications-data-software-other research outcomes), links them together and provide a single access point for their discovery and navigation. 
  • OpenAIRE COVID-19 Gateway
• openICPSR (University of Michigan): Data examining the impact of the novel coronavirus global pandemic
  • COVID-19 Data Repository
• ProgrammableWeb:  APIs that provide access to data related to the pandemic that can be used by developers to collect data about the outbreak, track its spread, and produce data visualizations.
  • APIs to Track Coronavirus COVID-19

• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI): Short guide on genetics/genomics and their relationship to health.
  • Genetics vs. Genomics Fact Sheet
• Nextstrain
  • Genomic Epidemiology of Novel Coronavirus - Global Subsampling
• Virological: A discussion forum for analysis and interpretation of virus molecular evolution and epidemiology.
  • Novel 2019 Coronavirus Genome Reports and Evolutionary History
• The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative: A global initiative to elucidate the role of host genetic factors in susceptibility and severity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic.
  • COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative
•  National Institutes of Health: Office of Data Science Strategy
  • Open-Access Data and Computational Resources to Address COVID-19

• Esri: includes location intelligence, geographic information system (GIS) and mapping software, services, and materials that people are using to help monitor, manage, and communicate the impact of the outbreak.
  • COVID-19 GIS Hub (Esri)

• University of Oxford: tracks and compares policy responses around the world
  • Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT)
• COVID-19 World Symptom Survey is a partnership between Facebook and academic institutions. Country and region-level statistics are published daily via public API and dashboards, and microdata are available for researchers via data use agreements. Over half a million responses are collected daily.
  • COVID-19 World Symptom Survey