Influenza Surveillance Weekly

This dataset includes aggregated weekly metrics of the surveillance indicators that the Department of Public Health uses to monitor influenza activity in Chicago. These indicators include:

• Influenza-associated ICU hospitalizations for Chicago residents, which is a reportable condition in Illinois (HOSP_ columns)

• Influenza laboratory data provided by participating sentinel laboratories in Chicago (LAB_ columns)

• Influenza-like illness data for outpatient clinic visits and emergency department visits. (ILI_ columns)

For more information on ILINET, see https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm#anchor_1539281266932.

For more information on ESSENCE, see https://www.dph.illinois.gov/data-statistics/syndromic-surveillance

All data are provisional and subject to change. Information is updated as additional details are received. At any given time, this dataset reflects data currently known to CDPH. Numbers in this dataset may differ from other public sources.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"cityofchicago/influenza-surveillance-weekly-6xmk-qk57\".\"influenza_surveillance_weekly\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.