theomichel
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3 years ago From the public note: On October 27, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. This timeseries only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.
This change affects:
- Positive Cases (People, confirmed + probable)
- Positive Cases (PCR)
- Probable Cases
- Total Test Encounters (PCR)
- Total PCR Tests (People)
Attaching the analysis spreadsheet as well as the sheets we used as intermediate steps for the data.
Analysis sheet: FL - Analysis 20201026.csv.txt
Time series downloaded from florida covid data hub ("Florida COVID19 State Testing Totals"), linked in @muamichali's description above). This is referred to as "FL download 10-26-2020" in the analysis sheet: FL - FL download 10-26-2020.csv.txt
Time series built from florida's daily PDF summaries, over time, this is referred to as "PDF 10-26" in the analysis sheet: FL - PDF 10-26.csv.txt
State or US: Florida
Describe the problem Florida has provided a total number of tests and cases going back to 1/28 on their open data hub. This backfills the data in order to provide a total tests metric that reflects repeat testing.
Link to data source https://open-fdoh.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/a91ca3832bd448a2a1b1bedad199ba2b/geoservice?page=25