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
    • Detailed preliminary information on confirmed cases of COVID-19 (Revised), 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.
  • The COVID Tracking Project - Homepage
  • The COVID Racial Data Tracker
• 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

• A National Education Association tracker for public K-12 schools broken down by state. Shows known cases, suspected cases and deaths, as well as whether those infected are students or staff. It includes links to the local news reports indicating where the data comes from.

  • NEA School and Campus COVID-19 Reporting Site

• 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. 
  • Geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide 
• European Union Open Data Portal: daily situation update, the epidemiological curve and the global geographical distribution (EU/EEA and the UK, 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
• University of Washington,  Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: Location for summaries and analysis of data related to n-CoV 2019.
  • Data on patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 
• 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