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.

disease.sh publishes 9 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including COVID-19: Apple API, COVID-19: Government API, COVID-19: JHUCSSE API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include COVID-19, Disease, Health, Epidemiology, and Influenza.

The disease.sh catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

disease.sh’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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22.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreeOpen⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

COVID-19 Disease Health EpidemiologyInfluenzaVaccines Open Data Public Health

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 22.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 9.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points
Contract Quality scores 46.5 — up to +13.4 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/disease-sh/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 9

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)

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disease.sh API pricing

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Plan	Price
Free	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

disease.sh

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Api Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

context Context

0 classes · 18 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

disease.sh — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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3 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Disease Sh Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Disease Sh Agentic Access

41 operations

41 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: disease-sh
name: disease.sh
description: 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.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - disease-sh/api
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/disease-sh.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- COVID-19
- Disease
- Health
- Epidemiology
- Influenza
- Vaccines
- Open Data
- Public Health
tags_raw:
- COVID-19
- Disease
- Health
- Epidemiology
- Influenza
- Vaccine
- Open Data
- Public Health
apis:
- aid: disease-sh:disease-sh-covid-19-apple-api
  name: 'disease.sh COVID-19: Apple API'
  description: (COVID-19 related mobility trend data from Apple, updated every 24 hours)
  humanURL: https://disease.sh
  baseURL: https://disease.sh/v3
  tags:
  - 'COVID-19: Apple'
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/disease-sh-covid-19-apple-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://disease.sh/docs/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: disease-sh:disease-sh-covid-19-government-api
  name: 'disease.sh COVID-19: Government API'
  description: (COVID-19 individual government reported data, updated every 24 hours)
  humanURL: https://disease.sh
  baseURL: https://disease.sh/v3
  tags:
  - 'COVID-19: Government'
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/disease-sh-covid-19-government-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://disease.sh/docs/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: disease-sh:disease-sh-covid-19-jhucsse-api
  name: 'disease.sh COVID-19: JHUCSSE API'
  description: (COVID-19 data sourced from Johns Hopkins University, updated every 10 minutes)
  humanURL: https://disease.sh
  baseURL: https://disease.sh/v3
  tags:
  - 'COVID-19: JHUCSSE'
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/disease-sh-covid-19-jhucsse-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://disease.sh/docs/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: disease-sh:disease-sh-covid-19-nyt-api
  name: 'disease.sh COVID-19: NYT API'
  description: (COVID-19 data sourced from the New York Times, updated every 24 hours)
  humanURL: https://disease.sh
  baseURL: https://disease.sh/v3
  tags:
  - 'COVID-19: NYT'
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/disease-sh-covid-19-nyt-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://disease.sh/docs/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: disease-sh:disease-sh-covid-19-therapeutics-api
  name: 'disease.sh COVID-19: Therapeutics API'
  description: (COVID-19 therapeutic trial data from raps.org, updated every 24 hours)
  humanURL: https://disease.sh
  baseURL: https://disease.sh/v3
  tags:
  - 'COVID-19: Therapeutics'
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/disease-sh-covid-19-therapeutics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://disease.sh/docs/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: disease-sh:disease-sh-covid-19-vaccine-api
  name: 'disease.sh COVID-19: Vaccine API'
  description: (COVID-19 vaccine trial data from raps.org, updated every 24 hours)
  humanURL: https://disease.sh
  baseURL: https://disease.sh/v3
  tags:
  - 'COVID-19: Vaccine'
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/disease-sh-covid-19-vaccine-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://disease.sh/docs/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: disease-sh:disease-sh-covid-19-variants-api
  name: 'disease.sh COVID-19: Variants API'
  description: (COVID-19 data from The European Surveillance System -TESSy, provided by [Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia,
    Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein,
    Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden]  https://www.ecdc.europa.eu
    and released by ECDC updated every week)
  humanURL: https://disease.sh
  baseURL: https://disease.sh/v3
  tags:
  - 'COVID-19: Variants'
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/disease-sh-covid-19-variants-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://disease.sh/docs/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: disease-sh:disease-sh-covid-19-worldometers-api
  name: 'disease.sh COVID-19: Worldometers API'
  description: (COVID-19 data sourced from Worldometers, updated every 10 minutes)
  humanURL: https://disease.sh
  baseURL: https://disease.sh/v3
  tags:
  - 'COVID-19: Worldometers'
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/disease-sh-covid-19-worldometers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://disease.sh/docs/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: disease-sh:disease-sh-influenza-cdc-api
  name: 'disease.sh Influenza: CDC API'
  description: (Influenza data reported by the United States CDC, updated every 24 hours)
  humanURL: https://disease.sh
  baseURL: https://disease.sh/v3
  tags:
  - 'Influenza: CDC'
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/disease-sh-influenza-cdc-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://disease.sh/docs/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/disease-sh/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://disease.sh/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/disease-sh-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/disease-sh-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/disease-sh
- type: Documentation
  url: https://disease.sh/docs/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/disease-sh/API/master/public/apidocs/swagger_v3.json
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://disease.sh/tos
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

disease.sh API — frequently asked questions

Does disease.sh have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 9 APIs from disease.sh, including disease.sh COVID-19: Apple API, disease.sh COVID-19: Government API and disease.sh COVID-19: JHUCSSE API, and 6 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the disease.sh API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for disease.sh, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the disease.sh API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for disease.sh, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the disease.sh API ready for AI agents?

disease.sh has a Kin Score of 22.5 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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