bitbar plugin that grabs some localised COVID-19 stats from https://disease.sh

covid-diseasesh.30m.js

#!/usr/bin/env /usr/local/bin/node
const bitbar = require('bitbar');
const http = require('https');
const fetch = require('node-fetch')
var emojiFlags = require('emoji-flags');

// change me for your country
const region = 'UK'

http.get(`https://disease.sh/v3/covid-19/countries/${region}`, async (res) => {
  const { statusCode } = res;
  const contentType = res.headers['content-type'];

  let error;
  if (statusCode !== 200) {
    error = new Error('Request Failed.\n' +
                      `Status Code: ${statusCode}`);
  } else if (!/^application\/json/.test(contentType)) {
    error = new Error('Invalid content-type.\n' +
                      `Expected application/json but received ${contentType}`);
  }
  if (error) {
    console.error(error.message);
    // Consume response data to free up memory
    res.resume();
    return;
  }

  let yesterday = async () => {
    try{
      const rawData = await fetch(`https://disease.sh/v3/covid-19/countries/${region}?yesterday=true`)
      const data = await rawData.json()
      return [
        {text: `Yesterday's cases: ${data.todayCases.toLocaleString()}`},
        {text: `Yesterday's deaths: ${data.todayDeaths.toLocaleString()}`}
      ]
    }
    catch(e){return null}
  }

  let vaccinations = async () => {
    try{
      const rawData = await fetch(`https://disease.sh/v3/covid-19/vaccine/coverage/countries/${region}?lastdays=1`)
      const {timeline} = await rawData.json()
      const vaccinations = Object.values(timeline)[0].toLocaleString()
      // this is 1st + 2nd in the UK
      return ({text: `Vaccinations 💉 : ${vaccinations}`})
    }
    catch(e){
      return {text:e.toString()}
    }
  }

  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  let rawData = '';
  res.on('data', (chunk) => { rawData += chunk; });
  res.on('end', async () => {
    try {
      const parsedData = JSON.parse(rawData);
      const data = parsedData;

      const now = new Date(data.updated);
      const min = now.getMinutes().toString().padStart(2,'0');
      const hr  = now.getHours().toString().padStart(2,'0');
      bitbar([
        {text: `🦠 ${data.cases.toLocaleString()}`},
        bitbar.separator,
        ...(data.todayCases||data.todayDeaths?[
          {text: `New cases today: ${data.todayCases.toLocaleString()}`},
          {text: `New deaths today: ${data.todayDeaths.toLocaleString()}`}
        ]:(
          await yesterday() || 
          [{text:'No new cases reported today'}]
        )),
        bitbar.separator,
        ...(data.recovered?[{text: `Recovered: ${data.recovered.toLocaleString()}`}]:[]),
        {text: `Deaths: ${data.deaths.toLocaleString()}`},
        {text: `Active cases: ${data.active.toLocaleString()}`},
        {text: `Serious cases: ${data.critical.toLocaleString()}`},
        {text: `Cases per million: ${data.casesPerOneMillion.toLocaleString()}`},
        {text: `Deaths per million: ${data.deathsPerOneMillion.toLocaleString()}`},
        bitbar.separator,
        await vaccinations(),
        bitbar.separator,
        {text: `Stats for ${data.countryInfo.iso2} ${emojiFlags.countryCode(data.countryInfo.iso2).emoji}`},
        {text: `Powered by disease.sh`, href: `https://disease.sh`},
        {text: `Data last updated at ${hr}:${min}`}
      ])
    } catch (e) {
      console.error(e.message);
    }
  });
}).on('error', (e) => {
  console.error(`Got error: ${e.message}`);
});

Newest update is more hopeful, added vaccinations total as a stat (UK data seems to be 1st dose vaccinations specifically)

This is an updated version of https://gist.github.com/davidsharp/e3b3839b2b2d6fe2d7ab71155ed78133 (note for posterity, removing long link from description)