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COVID19 Death Counts by Age Group This datasets is pulled daily from the CDC's data tracker for easier access. It provides weekly death counts secondary to COVID 19 stratified by age group. More information available at the Quartz Software Infection Disease Data Repository

Usage

deathcounts_by_age(use_memory = T, use_disk = T, bust_cache = F, ...)

Arguments

use_memory

Whether to use memory caching.

use_disk

Whether to use disk caching.

bust_cache

Whether to bust (refresh) the cache.

...

arguments to forward to the cache_download function.

Details

This function uses the cache_download function to download the data from the repository.

Examples

data <- deathcounts_by_age()
#> Rows: 144 Columns: 13
#> ── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> Delimiter: ","
#> dbl  (12): 1-4 Years, 15-24 Years, 25-34 Years, 35-44 Years, 45-54 Years, 5-...
#> date  (1): week
#> 
#>  Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
#>  Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.