Do we still need the global cases counts?

[joverlee521]

While checking #130, I noticed that there hasn't been a Slack notification regarding the global cases counts TSV for a ~while. I then realized that the global case counts at s3://nextstrain-data/files/workflows/forecasts-ncov/cases/global.tsv.gz has not been updated since 2024-08-17! The upstream OWID COVID-19 data has been moved and we need to update fetch-ncov-global-case-count.

However, the bigger question is do we still need the case counts? From what I can see, the case counts are only used by the renewal model and we are no longer running the renewal model.

Possible solutions

1. Update fetch-ncov-global-case-count
2. Remove the case counts related scripts and workflows.

[joverlee521]

Updating fetch-ncov-global-case-count should be pretty straight-forward:

diff --git i/ingest/bin/fetch-ncov-global-case-counts w/ingest/bin/fetch-ncov-global-case-counts
index ef68fc9..35be204 100755
--- i/ingest/bin/fetch-ncov-global-case-counts
+++ w/ingest/bin/fetch-ncov-global-case-counts
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 
 # Fetch CSV from Our World in Data
-curl https://covid.ourworldindata.org/data/owid-covid-data.csv \
+curl https://catalog.ourworldindata.org/garden/covid/latest/compact/compact.csv \
     --fail --silent --show-error --location \
     --header 'User-Agent: https://github.com/nextstrain/counts ([email protected])' |
-    # Only keep the date, location, and new_cases columns
-    csvtk cut -f location,date,new_cases |
-    # Rename new_cases to cases
-    csvtk rename -f new_cases -n cases |
+    # Only keep the date, country, and new_cases columns
+    csvtk cut -f country,date,new_cases |
+    # Rename new_cases to cases and country to location
+    csvtk rename -f new_cases,country -n cases,location |
     # Only keep rows that have more than 0 cases
     csvtk filter -f "cases>0" |
     # Remove decimals from case counts