Weekly confirmed influenza hospital admissions for New York and California
(CDC NHSN), with revision history, fetched via get_data;
pass through check_data to use it.
Format
A data frame with 5 columns:
- as_of
Date the observation was reported.
- location
State abbreviation (
"NY"or"CA").- target
Forecast target (
"wk inc flu hosp").- target_end_date
End date of the epiweek.
- observation
Confirmed hospital admissions count.
Source
CDC NHSN via pub_covidcast.
Details
The archive is pinned to the 14 December 2025 history, so the most recent weeks
are still right-truncated and get_ncast has reporting delay to model.
To regenerate with data-raw/example_data.R.
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
example_data |> check_data()
} # }