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flusight: NHSN Weekly Hospital Respiratory Data from FluSight

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FluSight's weekly hospital admission prediction targets based on the 'total number of new hospital admissions of patients with confirmed influenza captured during the reporting week' reported through CDC's NHSN (the dataset formerly known as HHS-Protect), Weekly Hospital Respiratory Data. Data was downloaded on November 12th 2025.

Usage

data(flusight)

Format

A data frame.

Details

Data represents how many cases were considered influenza during the week of target_end_date given the information known until week as_of. Note that as_of is always one week ahead of target_end_date.

This is count data. The columns are as follows:

  • as_of: The

  • target_end_date: The date where the case happened

  • observation: Case counts for those dates

  • location_name: State, district or territory

References

Target data from Flusight. Online: https://github.com/cdcepi/FluSight-forecast-hub/blob/main/target-data/time-series.csv

Examples

data(flusight)