COVID-19 Weekly and Daily Cases by Town in Massachusetts v.2021

This dataset includes COVID-19 Weekly and Daily Cases by Town in Massachusetts, representing counts of daily new positive infections and cumulative sum since the start of the pandemic for each one of the 351 in Massachusetts. The data span is April 1st, 2020 to January 19th, 2021 for the dataset Daily_Town_COVID19_MA.csv, and April 14th, 2020 to January 21st, 2021 for the dataset Weekly_Town_COVID19_MA.csv. The original data were extracted from the Department of Public Health (DPH).

The weekly dataset was created as part of the Northeastern University seed grant NU SVPR COVID-19: “Decision Support in Combating the Virus. Anticipating the next virus hot spot: Threats to Armed Forces and citizens”.
(Note: The authorship is alphabetical when excluding the first and last authors.)