Description from CDC Flu Portal Dashboard Information on patient visits to health care providers for influenza-like illness is collected through the U.S. Outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network, ILINet. ILINet consists of approximately 3,200 outpatient healthcare providers in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands reporting over 36 million patient visits each year. Each week, approximately 2,000 outpatient healthcare providers around the country report data to CDC on the total number of patients seen and the number of those patients with influenza-like illness, ILI, by age group, 0-4 years, 5-24 years, 25-49 years, 50-64 years, and ≥ 65 years. For this system, ILI is defined as fever, temperature of 100°F, 37.8°C, or greater, and a cough and/or a sore throat in the absence of a known cause other than influenza. Sites with electronic records use an equivalent definition as determined by state public health authorities.
ilinet
A data frame with 19556 rows and 7 variables:
Proper name U.S. State, character string
observation year, integer
observation week, integer
Unweighted percent of total Visits for ILI
Raw count for ILI visits
No. of reporting providers
No. of total patient visits
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html
Some variables renamed from original file for parsimony.