Table 1 Forecast characteristics for all four outcomes.

From: The United States COVID-19 Forecast Hub dataset

Outcome

Scale

Locations

Horizons Stored

Number of quantiles for probabilistic forecasts

Earliest Forecast Date

First date of standardized truth data

Date of first ensemble forecast

County

State

National

Incident Cases

Weekly

X

X

X

1 - 8 weeks

7

2020-07-05

2020-03-15

2020-07-18

Incident Hospitalizations

Daily

 

X

X

1 - 130 days

23

2020-03-27

2020-11-16

2020-12-05

Incident Deaths

Daily

 

X

X

1 - 130 days

23

2020-03-15

2020-03-15

NA

Incident Deaths

Weekly

 

X

X

1-20 weeks

23

2020-03-15

2020-03-15

2020-06-20

Cumulative Deaths

Daily

 

X

X

1 - 130 days

23

2020-03-15

2020-03-15

NA

Cumulative Deaths

Weekly

 

X

X

1-20 weeks

23

2020-03-15

2020-03-15

2020-04-13

  1. The table shows the temporal scale, spatial scale of locations, horizons stored, number of quantiles, and dates of the earliest forecast, earliest standardized truth data, and earliest ensemble build.