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COVID-Like Illness (CLI) and COVID-19 Diagnosis Emergency Department Visits - Historical

Metadata Updated: October 25, 2024

NOTE: This dataset is no longer being updated but is being kept for historical reference. For current data on respiratory illness visits and respiratory laboratory testing data please see Influenza, COVID-19, RSV, and Other Respiratory Virus Laboratory Surveillance and Inpatient, Emergency Department, and Outpatient Visits for Respiratory Illnesses.

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This is the source data for some of the metrics available at https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/covid-19/home/reopening-chicago.html#reopeningmetrics.

For all datasets related to COVID-19, see https://data.cityofchicago.org/browse?limitTo=datasets&sortBy=alpha&tags=covid-19.

The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP), a collaboration among CDC, federal partners, local and state health departments, and academic and private sector partners, is used to capture information during an Emergency Department (ED) visit. ED data can include information that are collected before cases are diagnosed or laboratory results are confirmed, providing an early warning system for infections, like COVID-19.

This dataset includes reports of COVID-19-Like illness (CLI) and COVID-19 diagnosed during an ED visit. CLI is defined as fever and cough or shortness of breath or difficulty breathing with or without the presence of a coronavirus diagnosis code. Visits meeting the CLI definition that also have mention of flu or influenza are excluded.

This dataset also includes ED visits among persons who have been diagnosed or laboratory confirmed to have COVID-19. During the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 diagnoses counts are artificially low, due to varying eligibility requirements and availability of testing.

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health best practices migrated from focusing on CLI to focusing on diagnosed cases. This dataset originally contained only CLI columns. In June 2021, the diagnosis columns were added, back filled to the start of the pandemic but with the caveat noted above. Roughly simultaneously, updating of the CLI columns was discontinued, although previously existing data were kept. Reflecting the new columns, the name of the dataset was changed from “COVID-Like Illness (CLI) Emergency Department Visits” to “COVID-Like Illness (CLI) and COVID-19 Diagnosis Emergency Department Visits” at the same time.

Data Source: Illinois Hospital Emergency Departments reporting to CDPH through the National Syndromic Surveillance Project (NSSP)

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date August 7, 2021
Metadata Updated Date October 25, 2024

Metadata Source

Harvested from Chicago JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date August 7, 2021
Metadata Updated Date October 25, 2024
Publisher data.cityofchicago.org
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2021-06-23
Data Last Modified 2024-10-18
Category Health & Human Services
Public Access Level public
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Homepage URL https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/qwib-edaw
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