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This is a dashboard for the [COVID-19 Forecast Hub](https://github.com/CDCgov/covid19-forecast-hub), which launched in November, 2024 and is being led by the US CDC. From April, 2020 through April, 2024, the [Reich Lab](https://reichlab.io/) at UMass, Amherst led the [previous version of the COVID-19 Forecast Hub](https://covid19forecasthub.org/).

A page with forecast evaluations will be added at a later date.

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[View The Latest Forecasts](forecast.html){.btn .btn-primary role="button"}

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The target data for the COVID-19 Forecast Hub is hospitalizations with COVID-19 as reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN); this data is publicly available through the CDC's [Weekly Hospital Respiratory Data (HRD) Metrics](https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/Weekly-Hospital-Respiratory-Data-HRD-Metrics-by-Ju/mpgq-jmmr/about_data) dataset.

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[The CDC notes](https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/Weekly-Hospital-Respiratory-Data-HRD-Metrics-by-Ju/mpgq-jmmr/about_data) that:

> Data for reporting dates through April 30, 2024 represent data reported during a previous mandated reporting period as specified by the HHS Secretary. Data for reporting dates May 1, 2024--October 31, 2024 represent voluntarily reported data in the absence of a mandate. Data for reporting dates beginning November 1, 2024 represent data reported during a current mandated reporting period.

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