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Weekly COVID-19 case counts by age group in Germany

Source: R/data.R
germany_covid.Rd

A dataset of the weekly count of COVID-19 cases by age group in Germany downloaded from the Robert Koch Institute Survstat service, and formatted for use in growth rates. A denominator is calculated which is the overall positive count for all age groups. This data set can be used to calculate group-wise incidence and absolute growth rates and group wise proportions and relative growth rates.

Usage

data(germany_covid)

Format

A dataframe containing the following columns:

  • class (enum(0–14,15–19,20–24,25–29,30–39,40–49,50–59,60–69,70–79,80+,Unknown, .ordered=TRUE)) - the age group

  • date (as.Date) - the date column

  • count (integer) - the test positives for each age group

  • time (time_period) - the time column

  • denom (integer) - the test positives for all age groups

Must be grouped by: class (and other groupings allowed).

No default value.

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