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To prepare for the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration on May 11, 2023, CDC is transitioning to sustainable national COVID-19 surveillance. CDC will continue to use all available resources to track COVID-19 and monitor its long-term effect on the United States and globally. Variant data is a good example of sustainable surveillance.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is constantly changing, with new lineages emerging and then spreading or disappearing. XBB.1.5 became the dominant lineage over the past few months, but it is now starting to wane as other lineages rise. Newer lineages like XBB.1.9.2 and XBB.1.16, both close relatives of XBB.1.5, are starting to rise and could displace XBB.1.5. At this time, the best ways to protect yourself and others from COVID-19 remain the same, regardless of which lineage causes infection. CDC will keep a close watch on these changes and continue to communicate about their potential impact.
Most data activities on COVID Data Tracker won’t be affected by the end of the public health emergency. In the next and final Weekly Review on May 12, we’ll give a more comprehensive summary of the updates to COVID Data Tracker and where you’ll be able to find the COVID-19 data you need.
The Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) is our solution to the challenges public health has faced for too long, which have been highlighted during the pandemic. Through the initiative, CDC is creating a world in which data can move faster than disease. Our ultimate goal is to get better, faster, actionable data for decision-making at all levels of public health.
The pandemic underscored the importance of good data across the nation’s public health system. CDC is working to advance eight core goals for public health surveillance of COVID-19:
DMI’s vision is to create one public health community that can engage robustly with healthcare, communicate meaningfully with the public, improve health equity, and have the means to protect and promote health. The gains we’ve made during the pandemic are now building a bridge to a new kind of surveillance and better approaches to public health data.
Yesterday, May 11, 2023, marked the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration. This doesn’t mean that COVID-19 is over, but the end of the PHE did initiate a cascade of updates to COVID-19 data collection, reporting, and surveillance. Some surveillance metrics will remain the same, but some will change in terms of reporting frequency, data sources, or availability.
The latest updates to CDC’s COVID Data Tracker reflect these changes. The homepage has a new look, and there are also new landing pages for hospitalizations, emergency department (ED) visits, and death data, as well as visualizations of trends and maps. Several pages have also been retired, but COVID Data Tracker has a page with links to archived data and visualizations.
These are the most notable changes to COVID Data Tracker:
Please see two new MMWR reports published May 5, 2023—COVID-19 Surveillance After Expiration of the Public Health Emergency Declaration and Correlations and Timeliness of COVID-19 Surveillance Data Sources and Indicators—for more details about the changes.
The United States has mobilized and sustained a historic response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The past three years have been highly challenging in many ways, but together we have made significant progress to reduce the impact COVID-19 has on the health of people and our communities.
CDC will continue to report and monitor valuable data, like genomic surveillance; wastewater surveillance; vaccination coverage, safety, and effectiveness; and hospital-related outcomes, from sentinel surveillance platforms like COVID-NET. These data will help inform individual and community public health actions to protect those at highest risk of severe COVID-19, such as older adults and people with underlying conditions. People with weakened immune systems should consider taking additional prevention measures, developing a COVID-19 Personal Plan to protect themselves from severe COVID-19, and speaking to their healthcare providers about early antiviral treatment options to prevent severe disease, hospitalization, and death. And everyone, high-risk or not, should stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines.
In the future, CDC will move toward integrating COVID-19 monitoring within a sustainable respiratory viruses surveillance strategy. CDC displays data for diagnosed or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) on the National Syndromic Surveillance Program dashboard (for ED visits) and the RESP-NET dashboard (hospitalizations).
What’s New:
Links to Data and Visualizations that have been Archived and No Longer Display on CDC COVID Data Tracker
Archival Date | Archived Page Name | Information |
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9/30/2021 | Vaccinations in Long-Term Care Facilities |
Historical data that reflect the Federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care (LTC) Program are available on data.cdc.gov. |
7/28/2022 | COVID-19 Among Pregnant People |
Information about findings from these data and about CDC's ongoing data collection efforts to better understand the impact of COVID-19 during pregnancy can be found here. |
10/13/2022 | Vaccination and Case Trends |
Archived data are available at Archive: COVID-19 Vaccination and Case Trends by Age Group, United States | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov). |
11/3/2022 | Vaccination Demographics |
Archived data are available at Archive: COVID-19 Vaccination Demographic Trends by Report Date, National | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov). |
11/17/2022 | Birth and Infant Outcomes |
This page has been redirected to https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/set-net/articles.html |
3/2/2023 | Correctional Facilities |
Archived data are available at UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project website and GitHub |
3/16/2023 | State-Issued Prevention Measures at the State-Level |
Visualizations are archived on Tableau Public at the following links: StateMap, StateOverlay, StateCompare |
3/16/2023 | State-Issued Prevention Measures at the County-Level |
Visualizations are archived on Tableau Public at the following links: CountyMap, CountyOverlay. |
5/11/2023 | Cases and Deaths by Urban/Rural Status and Social Factor |
Archived data are available at Trends in COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United States, by County-level Population Factors. Data to classify counties based on demographic factors are available at the following locations: Social Vulnerability Index, 2013 National Center for Health Statistics Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties, COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index (CCVI) scores from Surgo Ventures, and distribution by age, race/ethnicity, household size, poverty level, and health insurance status from American Community Survey. |
5/11/2023 | Hospitalizations by Vaccination Status - COVID-NET |
Archived data are available at Rates of Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Hospitalizations by Vaccination Status from the COVID-NET Surveillance System. |
5/11/2023 | Pandemic Vulnerability Index |
Visit NIEHS COVID-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index to access the PVI archived dashboard. |
5/11/2023 | Estimates of Weighted Proportions of Variants by Jurisdiction |
Archived data are available at Tableau Public. |
5/11/2023 | Forecasting |
Archived data are available at CDC COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Ensemble Forecast Archive. |
5/11/2023 | Compare State and Regional Trends |
Archived data are available at Weekly United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by State. |
5/11/2023 | Trends in Number of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the US Reported to CDC, by State/Territory |
Test positivity data from COVID-19 Electronic Laboratory Reporting (CELR) that was previously posted has been archived at COVID-19 Diagnostic Laboratory Testing (PCR Testing) Time Series. Aggregate Case and Death data have been archived at Weekly United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by State. |
5/11/2023 | United States COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Laboratory Testing (NAATs) by State, Territory, and Jurisdiction |
Test positivity data from COVID-19 Electronic Laboratory Reporting (CELR) that was previously posted has been archived at COVID-19 Diagnostic Laboratory Testing (PCR Testing) Time Series. Aggregate Case and Death data have been archived at Weekly United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by State. |
5/11/2023 | COVID-19 Integrated County View (COVID-19 Community Levels, Level of Community Transmission, and County Level Data Sources) |
COVID-19 Community Levels and hospital data at the county-level are archived at United States COVID-19 Community Levels by County. COVID-19 Community Transmission Levels and CELR test positivity at the county-level are archived at Weekly COVID-19 County Level of Community Transmission as Originally Posted and Weekly COVID-19 County Level of Community Transmission Historical Changes. COVID-19 County Level Data Sources are noted at United States COVID-19 County Level Data Sources. Weekly county-level case and death data that was previously posted has been archived at Weekly United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by County - ARCHIVED. |