covidregionaldata: Subnational data for COVID-19 epidemiology

covidregionaldatais an R (R Core Team, 2020) package that provides an interface tosubnational and national level COVID-19 data. The package provides cleaned and verifiedCOVID-19 test-positive case counts and, where available, counts of deaths, recoveries, andhospitalisations in a consistent and fully transparent framework. The package automatescommon processing steps while allowing researchers to easily and transparently trace theorigin of the underlying data sources. It has been designed to allow users to easily extend thepackage’s capabilities and contribute to shared data handling. All package code is archivedon Zenodo andGitHub.