This is COVID Health Hotline Finder.

You're feeling a little sick. You have questions about your symptoms. Maybe you want to ask your local health department about COVID-19, or maybe you're curious about the number of reported cases of the disease in your county. Not a problem - simply use our bot to get information about both!

You saw The New York Times released case data about COVID-19, and you want to easily access it for an application you're building. Easy - use our API! Feel free to fork it and build it out further for your needs.

You want an easy, dynamic visualization that shows the number of cases/deaths related to COVID-19 by county. Check out our visualization!

Leggo
Hi! I can provide you with case/death numbers for your county as well as information for your nearest public health center. What's your zipcode? Once you let us know, please wait - it can take a few moments to pull the data.
15108
As of 2020-03-27, there are 158 recorded cases and 2 recorded deaths in your county (data from NYTimes). Your nearest county health center is the Allegheny County Health Department. You can call them at this number: 412-687-2243, or email them/visit their website here: http://www.achd.net (Information from NACCHO). Type "clear" to enter a new zip code.
Information Bot
Text "leggo" to (216)-284-3839 (or anything, really - this is just more fun). After doing so, you will be prompted to enter a zip code. Upon entering a zip code, you will receive data regarding the current number of COVID-19 cases and deaths most recently reported by The New York Times for the county associated with that zip code. You will also receive information related to the Local Health Department closest to that zip code (data from NACCHO). NOTE: Because we're using the free tier of Heroku, sometimes, the bot goes to sleep - if you don't get a reponse the first time, wait a moment and try again. Built with Twilio, Node.JS, and Heroku. Code can be found here.
Leggo
Hi! I can provide you with case/death numbers for your county as well as information for your nearest public health center. What's your zipcode? Once you let us know, please wait - it can take a few moments to pull the data.
15108
As of 2020-03-27, there are 158 recorded cases and 2 recorded deaths in your county (data from NYTimes). Your nearest county health center is the Allegheny County Health Department. You can call them at this number: 412-687-2243, or email them/visit their website here: http://www.achd.net (Information from NACCHO). Type "clear" to enter a new zip code.
API
This will allow any user to access The New York Times' COVID-19 case/death data for the county of any zipcode.
Use it via a simple GET request, replacing the below zipcode with any zipcode:
http://covid-hotline-bling.herokuapp.com/zipcode/44106

It will return a JSON object with the FIPS code for the county, number of cases, deaths, and the last time the data was updated:
{"fips":"39035", "cases":330, "deaths":2, "recentdate":"2020-03-27"}

You can also get all the data associated with FIPS codes that only includes the most up-to-date total of cases and deaths by making the following GET request:
http://covid-hotline-bling.herokuapp.com/dataallfips/notraw

It will return an array of all JSON objects with all most recent data associated with FIPS codes. You can also request /dataallfips/raw to access the raw, unprocessed data.
[
{
   "date":"2020-03-28",
   "county":"Snohomish",
   "state":"Washington",
   "fips":"53061",
   "cases":912,
   "deaths":23 },
{
   "date":"2020-03-28",
   "county":"Cook",
   "state":"Illinois",
   "fips":"17031",
   "cases":2613,
   "deaths":28
},
[...]
]

Built with Node.JS and Heroku. Code can be found here.
Visualization
You can view the cases/deaths by county using the map below. Data comes from The New York Times, and it is automatically updated everytime they add new data. Heatmap was generated using logarathmic transformation of the data. Created using Leaflet in R Studio. Code can be found here. Click here to view full screen.
Created by George Saieed and Ellen Kendall.