Find and incorporate structured data on restrictions

[flaneuse]

Related to outbreak-info/outbreak.info#51.

Could focus on U.S. first; would ideally incorporate data at the county- and state-level. Will probably involve a fair bit of data curation to standardize definitions between sources.

Dataset should include date_start, date_end, location_id (ISO3 or FIPS code), location_name, state/country ISO3 and name, description, data source, restriction_category (e.g. border closures, shelter-in-place, travel restrictions, business closures, etc.) -- and probably other things.

Sources to investigate:

• NYT
• Washington Post
• Oxford: https://covidtracker.bsg.ox.ac.uk/about-api
• List of COVID sources

[gkarthik]

NYT data for states - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/states-reopen-map-coronavirus.html.

[flaneuse]

CA has county-level data on whether counties hit specific thresholds, but hard to find historic data: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID19CountyDataTable.aspx

San Diego: https://sdcounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/30b5e0fa2a5f4404b1219d8cd16b2583