Initial ingest — jhu-csse-covid — card update

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+---
+pretty_name: JHU CSSE COVID-19 — global daily (archived)
+license: cc-by-4.0
+size_categories:
+- 100K<n<1M
+tags:
+- cadence-daily
+- geo-global
+- surveillance-respiratory
+- pathogen-sars-cov-2
+- tier-3
+- availability-open
+schema_version: '0.1'
+source_id: jhu-csse-covid
+source_url: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
+manifest_section: §16.2
+surveillance_category: respiratory
+pathogens:
+- sars-cov-2
+availability: inactive
+availability_notes: Repository archived 2023-03-09. Use as historical reference; not a live feed.
+access_type: github
+tier: 3
+cadence: daily
+geography_levels:
+- national
+geography_countries:
+- multiple
+gold_standard_for: []
+vintaged_version_of: null
+succeeds: null
+derived_from: []
+value_columns:
+- name: confirmed
+  unit: cases (cumulative)
+  value_type: cumulative
+  description: Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 cases reported to JHU CSSE
+  aggregation: max
+- name: deaths
+  unit: deaths (cumulative)
+  value_type: cumulative
+  description: Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths
+  aggregation: max
+- name: recovered
+  unit: people (cumulative)
+  value_type: cumulative
+  description: Cumulative recoveries; many jurisdictions stopped reporting this in 2021, so column is mostly NaN late in the
+    series
+  aggregation: max
+notes:
+  extra_columns:
+  - column: location_name
+    description: JHU's English country name. `location_id` is canonical.
+  interpretation_caveats:
+  - column: recovered
+    caveat: Most countries stopped reporting recoveries by 2021-Q3; this column is functionally dead post-2021. Don't use
+      as a target.
+  - column: confirmed
+    caveat: 'JHU compiled from ad-hoc national sources; definitions, lab criteria, and reporting cadence vary
+
+      wildly between countries and over time. Treat as a global-shape signal, not a comparable rate.
+
+      '
+  general: 'JHU stopped active maintenance 2023-03-09 and archived the repo. Province-level rolls
+
+    are present in the source files but dropped here (province names are free-text, not
+
+    ISO 3166-2; a per-country crosswalk is needed and is out of scope for this v0.1 ingest).
+
+    '
+extra:
+  archive_date: '2023-03-09'
+  province_level_dropped: true
+computed:
+  last_ingested: '2026-04-26T12:48:58Z'
+  row_count: 225171
+  time_coverage:
+  - start: '2020-01-22'
+    end: '2023-03-09'
+  geography_unit_count: 194
+  observed_cadence_days: 1
+  missing_gaps: []
+  data_hash: 3f77af3c78e5a8f1
+---
+
+# JHU CSSE COVID-19 — global daily (archived)
+
+JHU stopped active maintenance 2023-03-09 and archived the repo. Province-level rolls
+are present in the source files but dropped here (province names are free-text, not
+ISO 3166-2; a per-country crosswalk is needed and is out of scope for this v0.1 ingest).
+
+**Source:** <https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19>
+
+## Coverage
+
+- **Time:** 2020-01-22 → 2023-03-09
+- **Cadence:** `daily` (observed median spacing: 1 days)
+- **Geography levels:** `national` — 194 unique location IDs
+- **Countries:** multiple
+- **Pathogens:** `sars-cov-2`
+- **Surveillance category:** `respiratory`
+- **Rows:** 225,171
+
+## Columns
+
+| Column | Unit | value_type | Aggregation | Description |
+|--------|------|------------|-------------|-------------|
+| `confirmed` | cases (cumulative) | `cumulative` | `max` | Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 cases reported to JHU CSSE |
+| `deaths` | deaths (cumulative) | `cumulative` | `max` | Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths |
+| `recovered` | people (cumulative) | `cumulative` | `max` | Cumulative recoveries; many jurisdictions stopped reporting this in 2021, so column is mostly NaN late in the series |
+
+### Additional data columns
+
+- **`location_name`** — JHU's English country name. `location_id` is canonical.
+
+## Interpretation caveats
+
+Things that may differ from how other sources define a similar measure. If you're combining this dataset with another, read these first.
+
+- **`recovered`** — Most countries stopped reporting recoveries by 2021-Q3; this column is functionally dead post-2021. Don't use as a target.
+- **`confirmed`** — JHU compiled from ad-hoc national sources; definitions, lab criteria, and reporting cadence vary
+wildly between countries and over time. Treat as a global-shape signal, not a comparable rate.
+
+
+## Access
+
+- **Availability:** `inactive`
+- **Access type:** `github`
+- **License:** cc-by-4.0
+- **Tier:** 3
+
+---
+
+*Schema version `0.1` · Last ingested 2026-04-26T12:48:58Z · `source_id: jhu-csse-covid` · Manifest section §16.2*