Covid 19 Data Directory | Macon County, IL | 2021

Raw Data Downloads

MCHD does not make raw data available for download, as far as I know.

Love Decatur

For technical reasons, not all of our data is compiled for download yet.

• MCHD Weekly Data as json
• IDPH Daily Data as json

IDPH Data downloads

The data downloads all come from IDPH's data portal, and there are more available than I've listed here.

• Cases, Tests, & Deaths For Macon County Population: Updated daily.
  • csv: look for 'Macon'
  • json
• Cases & Tests by Demographic for Macon County. Updated daily.
  • Note: Deaths are always marked zero in this data. Idk why.
  • csv (spreadsheet)
    • by age
    • by race
    • by gender
  • json (json (for programming))
    • by Age as json
    • by Race as json
    • by Gender as json
• Vaccine Administration for Macon County
  • csv
  • json
• Hospital, ICU, and Ventilator Availability Statewide
  • csv
  • json

CDC Data Downloads

There are so many viewers and data sources on the cdc website ... I don't know if I'll ever get to listing them all. Here is the cdc covid data home page

• County-level
  • data used to load the county viewer page. This data isn't especially useful. To get more involved data, you must visit the data viewer, choose our county, and then click the 'download' buttons in the expandable menus toward the bottom.
• Nationwide
  • Index of available datasets
  • Case Surveillance Public Use Data: "This case surveillance public use dataset has 12 elements for all COVID-19 cases shared with CDC and includes demographics, any exposure history, disease severity indicators and outcomes, presence of any underlying medical conditions and risk behaviors, and no geographic data.""
    • with geography
    • restricted access data: It has more data points and you have to request access. details on the linked page.
  • Weekly overview of deaths by state: Lists numbers for: deaths from all causes, deaths involving covid, involving pneumonia, and involving influenza
  • Weekly updates by demographics & geography: There are several raw data downloads available toward the end of the page.

Data Viewers (not downloads)

I use lists, others use charts, graphs, and other fancy stuff.

Love Decatur

I compile some data from official sources into a format that I find useful & hope you do too.

• MCHD Weekly Reports
• IDPH Daily Reports
• CDC Daily Reports

IDPH

• Macon County
  • Cases in each school
  • Cases in kids: Scroll just past the map & expand the "Metrics for School ..." dropdown to see "Youth Cases" for Macon County. The rest the data on that page is not about kids.
  • Test Positivity rate & hospitalizations snapshot
  • Historical Test Positivity rate & hospitalizations
  • Long Term Care Facilities: You will need to select "Macon" in the dropdown. The page may load VERY slowly.
• Statewide
  • Overview of hospitals, cases, deaths, and vaccinations
• Vaccine Administration
  • Statewide Summary
  • Macon County Summary & Map
  • More Vaccine Administration Data
• Regional (We are Region 6)
  • Resurgence Criteria: test positivity rate, icu beds, new hospitalizations. Includes county-by-county breakdowns of test positivity details.
  • Outbreak Locations

MCHD

MCHD doesn't really have any data viewers I'm aware of & they don't consistently upload their covid releases to the same place. However, I do have a compiled list of weekly mchd releases

• Website News Releases which include covid notices. However, lately (June/july/august 2021) they've been posting to Facebook and NOT putting the PDF on the website.
• MCHD's Facebook which has the releases NOT found on the website

CDC

There are so many viewers and data sources on the cdc website ... I don't know if I'll ever get to listing them all. Here is the cdc covid data home page

• County vaccinations, cases, hospitalizations, etc
• Nationwide
  • Overview of states
  • Mortality Overview
  • Weekly overview of deaths by state: Lists numbers for: deaths from all causes, deaths involving covid, involving pneumonia, and involving influenza
  • Weekly updates by demographics & geography
  • Additional viewers are available that I haven't made the time to list.
  • Variant Data

Other

• Worldwide covid cases/death overview with a map & visualizations. Or view it on mobile
• Illinois Department of Human Services
  • long term care facilities
• Nursing Home Data