disease.sh
disease.sh is an open API providing reliable global disease statistics, including COVID-19 worldwide and country-level data, US state breakdowns, historical case counts, vaccine and therapeutic coverage, influenza outbreak data from the CDC, and mobility metrics from Apple and government sources. The API is completely free to use, requires no authentication, and supports CORS for browser-based integrations.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles disease.sh the way a machine reads it — 74 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — disease.sh scores 38.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile disease.sh
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for disease.sh. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
disease.sh COVID-19: Apple API
(COVID-19 related mobility trend data from Apple, updated every 24 hours)
disease.sh COVID-19: Government API
(COVID-19 individual government reported data, updated every 24 hours)
disease.sh COVID-19: JHUCSSE API
(COVID-19 data sourced from Johns Hopkins University, updated every 10 minutes)
disease.sh COVID-19: NYT API
(COVID-19 data sourced from the New York Times, updated every 24 hours)
disease.sh COVID-19: Therapeutics API
(COVID-19 therapeutic trial data from raps.org, updated every 24 hours)
disease.sh COVID-19: Vaccine API
(COVID-19 vaccine trial data from raps.org, updated every 24 hours)
disease.sh COVID-19: Variants API
(COVID-19 data from The European Surveillance System -TESSy, provided by [Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greec...
disease.sh COVID-19: Worldometers API
(COVID-19 data sourced from Worldometers, updated every 10 minutes)
disease.sh Influenza: CDC API
(Influenza data reported by the United States CDC, updated every 24 hours)
Scroll within the panel for all 9 ·
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Plans
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 2
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Api Context
JSON-LDcontext Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
disease.sh API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 45
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ILINet
JSON SCHEMAUSCL
JSON SCHEMAUSPHL
JSON SCHEMAcovidAll
JSON SCHEMAcovidAppleCountries
JSON SCHEMAcovidAppleData
JSON SCHEMAcovidAppleSubregions
JSON SCHEMAcovidContinent
JSON SCHEMAcovidContinents
JSON SCHEMAcovidCountries
JSON SCHEMAcovidCountry
JSON SCHEMAcovidGov
JSON SCHEMAcovidHistorical
JSON SCHEMAcovidHistoricalAll
JSON SCHEMAcovidHistoricalCountries
JSON SCHEMAcovidHistoricalCountry
JSON SCHEMAcovidHistoricalProvince
JSON SCHEMAcovidHistoricalProvinces
JSON SCHEMAcovidHistoricalUSCounties
JSON SCHEMAcovidHistoricalUSCounty
JSON SCHEMAcovidJHUCounties
JSON SCHEMAcovidJHUCountries
JSON SCHEMAcovidJHUCounty
JSON SCHEMAcovidNYTCounty
JSON SCHEMAcovidNYTState
JSON SCHEMAcovidNYTUSA
JSON SCHEMAcovidState
JSON SCHEMAcovidStates
JSON SCHEMAfullVaccineTimeline
JSON SCHEMAinfluenzaILINet
JSON SCHEMAinfluenzaUSCL
JSON SCHEMAinfluenzaUSPHL
JSON SCHEMAphases
JSON SCHEMAsimpleVaccineTimeline
JSON SCHEMAtherapeutic
JSON SCHEMAtherapeutics
JSON SCHEMAvaccine
JSON SCHEMAvaccineCountriesCoverage
JSON SCHEMAvaccineCountryCoverage
JSON SCHEMAvaccineCoverage
JSON SCHEMAvaccineStateCoverage
JSON SCHEMAvaccineStatesCoverage
JSON SCHEMAvaccines
JSON SCHEMAvariantsCountriesECDC
JSON SCHEMAvariantsECDC
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 45 ·
Examples 12
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Countriesfullvaccinetimeline
EXAMPLECountryfullvaccinetimeline
EXAMPLECountrysimplevaccinetimeline
EXAMPLEFullvaccinetimeline
EXAMPLEGet_Fulltimeline_200
EXAMPLEGet_Simpletimeline_200
EXAMPLESimplevaccinetimeline
EXAMPLEStatefullvaccinetimeline
EXAMPLEStatesimplevaccinetimeline
EXAMPLEStatesfullvaccinetimeline
EXAMPLEStatessimplevaccinetimeline
EXAMPLEScroll within the panel for all 12 ·
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for disease.sh — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
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