2021-01-03: Added hopitalization and vaccination data from Our World in Data. This implies a renaming of the function download_owid_testing_data() to download_owid_data()
2020-06-07: Added some options to download_google_trends_data() to allow the download of Google Trends data for selected countries and a wider set of countries. Also included an option to omit the sleeping delay between Google Trends queries (usage not encouraged).
2020-05-21: Changed definition of active cases
2020-05-10: Added ECDC Covid-19 case data
2020-05-10: Added OWID testing data
2020-05-10: Changed Google CMR data to percentage*100 for consistency
2020-05-10: Added additional coding examples in example_code.R
2020-05-03: Added long overdue data documentation
2020-05-03: Provided option to download regional and U.S. county JHU CSSE data
2020-05-03: Provided option to download regional and U.S. county Google CMR data
2020-05-03: Provided option to download regional Apple MTR data
2020-04-30: Incorporated the new format for OxCGRT Government Respose data
2020-04-26: Included map_covid19() to produce choropleth maps of the Covid-19 spread
2020-04-25: Included plot_covid19_stripes() to produce Covid-19 stripe visuals (good if you want to compare many countries quickly)
2020-04-17: Changed defaults in plot_covid19_spread() to have more reasonable defaults for per capita plots
2020-04-17: Added code to download Google’s Community Mobility Report data in CSV format
2020-04-17: Removed Google PDF download and scraping code as Google made its data available via CSV files (Yeah!)
2020-04-16: Included Apple Mobility Trends Reports data
2020-04-13: *_covid19_spread(): Added additional options for per capita displays
2020-04-12: Included code to scrape information provided by Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports
2020-04-10: *_covid19_spread(): Added option to exclude unhighlighted countries
2020-04-10: shiny_covid19_spread(): Changed API to include all plot options
2020-04-09: *_covid19_spread(): Added option for averaged daily changes
2020-04-05: Included Oxford NPI data
2020-03-31: *_covid19_spread(): Added option for linear Y-axis
2020-03-31: shiny_covid19_spread(): Added option to copy plot code to clipboard
2020-03-29: Initial in-development version on Github