EPI-Eval/covid19-forecast-hub

---
pretty_name: COVID-19 Forecast Hub — hospital admissions target
license: cc0-1.0
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
tags:
- cadence-weekly
- geo-us
- surveillance-respiratory
- pathogen-sars-cov-2
- tier-1
- availability-open
schema_version: '0.1'
source_id: covid19-forecast-hub
source_url: https://github.com/CDCgov/covid19-forecast-hub
manifest_section: §4.2
surveillance_category: respiratory
pathogens:
- sars-cov-2
availability: open
availability_notes: null
access_type: github
tier: 1
cadence: weekly
geography_levels:
- national
- subnational-state
geography_countries:
- US
gold_standard_for: []
vintaged_version_of: null
succeeds: null
derived_from:
- nhsn-hrd
value_columns:
- name: value
unit: admissions/week
value_type: incident
description: Confirmed COVID-19 hospital admissions for the epiweek (hub scoring target)
aggregation: sum
notes:
extra_columns:
- column: location_name
description: State postal code as published. `location_id` is FIPS / `US`.
interpretation_caveats:
- column: value
caveat: Mirrors NHSN HRD with hub-side freezing applied — single value per (date, location). Use NHSN HRD directly for
the un-frozen series.
general: 'Truth-only ingest. Model forecasts are a different shape and live in `model-output/`;

handle separately.

'
extra:
hub_format_note: Hubverse
computed:
last_ingested: '2026-04-26T12:48:43Z'
row_count: 4028
time_coverage:
- start: '2024-11-09'
end: '2026-04-18'
geography_unit_count: 53
observed_cadence_days: 7
missing_gaps: []
data_hash: 96370b8ef2f8266e
---

# COVID-19 Forecast Hub — hospital admissions target

Truth-only ingest. Model forecasts are a different shape and live in `model-output/`;
handle separately.

**Source:** <https://github.com/CDCgov/covid19-forecast-hub>

## Coverage

- **Time:** 2024-11-09 → 2026-04-18
- **Cadence:** `weekly` (observed median spacing: 7 days)
- **Geography levels:** `national`, `subnational-state` — 53 unique location IDs
- **Countries:** US
- **Pathogens:** `sars-cov-2`
- **Surveillance category:** `respiratory`
- **Rows:** 4,028

## Columns

| Column | Unit | value_type | Aggregation | Description |
|--------|------|------------|-------------|-------------|
| `value` | admissions/week | `incident` | `sum` | Confirmed COVID-19 hospital admissions for the epiweek (hub scoring target) |

### Additional data columns

- **`location_name`** — State postal code as published. `location_id` is FIPS / `US`.

## Interpretation caveats

Things that may differ from how other sources define a similar measure. If you're combining this dataset with another, read these first.

- **`value`** — Mirrors NHSN HRD with hub-side freezing applied — single value per (date, location). Use NHSN HRD directly for the un-frozen series.

## Related datasets in EPI-Eval

- **Derived from:** `nhsn-hrd`

## Access

- **Availability:** `open`
- **Access type:** `github`
- **License:** cc0-1.0
- **Tier:** 1

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*Schema version `0.1` · Last ingested 2026-04-26T12:48:43Z · `source_id: covid19-forecast-hub` · Manifest section §4.2*