A quick and dirty JSON-LD of COVID reporting with schema.org (marked as being JS so the comments work)

covid-observation.js

{
  "@context": "http://schema.org/",
  "@type": "SpecialAnnouncement",
  "about": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019",
  "datePosted": "2020-04-20T13:45:00.000Z",
  "diseaseSpreadStatistics": [
    // deaths in France on the 19th
    {
      "@type": "Observation",
      "measuredProperty": "https://ns.nytimes.com/#deathCount",
      "measuredValue": 915,
      "observationDate": "2020-04-19",
      "geographicArea": {
        "@type": "Country",
        "name": "France"
      }
    },
    // cases in France on the 19th
    {
      "@type": "Observation",
      "measuredProperty": "https://ns.nytimes.com/#casesCount",
      "measuredValue": 21053,
      "observationDate": "2020-04-19",
      "geographicArea": {
        "@type": "Country",
        "name": "France"
      }
    },
    // recovered in France on the 19th
    {
      "@type": "Observation",
      "measuredProperty": "https://ns.nytimes.com/#recoveredCount",
      "measuredValue": 6538,
      "observationDate": "2020-04-19",
      "geographicArea": {
        "@type": "Country",
        "name": "France"
      }
    },
    // deaths in France on the 18th
    {
      "@type": "Observation",
      "measuredProperty": "https://ns.nytimes.com/#deathCount",
      "measuredValue": 901,
      "observationDate": "2020-04-18",
      "geographicArea": {
        "@type": "Country",
        "name": "France"
      }
    },
    // deaths in New York State on the 19th
    {
      "@type": "Observation",
      "measuredProperty": "https://ns.nytimes.com/#deathCount",
      "measuredValue": 10002,
      "observationDate": "2020-04-19",
      "geographicArea": {
        "@type": "State",
        "name": "New York",
        "containedInPlace": { "@type": "Country", "USA" }
      }
    },
    // deaths in Suffolk County on the 19th
    {
      "@type": "Observation",
      "measuredProperty": "https://ns.nytimes.com/#deathCount",
      "measuredValue": 362,
      "observationDate": "2020-04-19",
      "geographicArea": {
        "@type": "County",
        "name": "Suffolk",
        "containedInPlace": {
          "@type": "State",
          "name": "New York",
          "containedInPlace": { "@type": "Country", "USA" }
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Things that aren't in schema.org or that aren't clear (or are arbitrary):

• I'm not sure that the about of the SpecialAnnouncement makes sense.
• The set of measuredProperties is probably wrong.
• There might be an easier way to specify geographicArea.
• I invented the type County.
• I added geographicArea to Observation.

This probably needs to support range values, and the ability to distinguish between confirmed cases and non-confirmed.

How about instead of looking for death tolls, dig into GSA and GIS for energy situation differences. For example, total number of human presence at a location swarming into a collective funnel of aggressive need to generate into the combination of vehicular precedence representing motor compulsary drive by torque expressed momentum and the human interest of movement and acknowledgement of a physical "cyber type" enablement as a configuration guardianship, such as BOOLEAN_AS_A_FUNCTION module.

I don't participate in enabling Schema however, when the time comes, I'll put it.

GIS @0318

Identity of Phenom Enthrophy Observer as a Human is needed.

:^)

Left a more detailed comment regarding potential alignment with SOSA vocabulary over at schemaorg/schemaorg#2564 (comment)