get_JHU_data¶

get_JHU_data(update_data: bool = False) → pandas.core.frame.DataFrame[source]¶

Retrives covid19 data from JHU (Johns Hopkins University) and transforms it to a uniform style https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

Parameters: update_data (bool, optional) – Whether to fetch updated data or not, if the locally saved data doesn’t include today.
Returns: Dataframe containing the covid19 data from JHU
Return type: pd.DataFrame