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COVID-19 Data Collection by teams at Cornell
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NYC Health Daily PDFs #2

Closed bayoumi17m closed 4 years ago

bayoumi17m commented 4 years ago

NYC Health has this website which contains PDFs that have stratified disease progression information! The goal here is to fetch all the PDFs (and new ones as they come), and extract the table

bayoumi17m commented 4 years ago

The PDF files have the dates + version numbers in their file name which means we can actually "go back in time" For example, https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary-hospitalizations-04042020-1.pdf is for April 4th and to get April 3rd we can just go to https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary-hospitalizations-04032020-1.pdf