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Recovered cases are missing in the new files/structure! #1537

Open NajiElKotob opened 4 years ago

NajiElKotob commented 4 years ago

Hello,

Yesterday you mentioned that the files below will no longer be updated and we should use new data files/structure time_series_covid19_confirmed_global.csv and time_series_covid19_deaths_global.csv. So, what about the recovered cases?

Deprecated files/structure: time_series_19-covid-Confirmed.csv time_series_19-covid-Deaths.csv time_series_19-covid-Recovered.csv

Bmr55 commented 4 years ago

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We will no longer provide recovered cases

In a comment they explain why

No reliable data source reporting recovered cases for many countries, such as the US.

Originally posted by @CSSEGISandData in https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/issues/1250#issuecomment-602271179

cognospaul commented 4 years ago

For my purposes I've been experimenting with considering confirmed cases over 10 days to be recovered. This may have to be revised - most of the confirmed cases are only tests performed on critically ill, so the recovery time is significantly longer thus skewing the average. However, this method is returning a somewhat meaningful result. For example, using this shows that the US actually has more active infections than Italy.