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Hospitalized - Clarification on ever or current #49

Closed timmmichaud closed 4 years ago

timmmichaud commented 4 years ago

How do you account for "Hospitalized"?

Is the current number of hospitalized at this time? Or the running total over all time?

It would be good to have this added to the FAQ to clear up which number that column represents. Or maybe even add a second column to show current hospitalization stats today vs. total for all time.

timmmichaud commented 4 years ago

I just noticed NYC has started to label this column as "Ever Hospitalized Cases"

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Screenshot from here - https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary-hospitalizations.pdf

careeningspace commented 4 years ago

Hello, We are in the process of expanding our outcome data reporting as I type. We will struggle with collecting the data, but you can be assured that we will be pressing governments to provide this data as accurately as possible. Soon we will report cumulative and current hospitalization data as it is available.

Thanks!

timmmichaud commented 4 years ago

I saw the new label above Hospitalized for "Cumulative". Looks good, thanks! 👍🏼