France: still wrong number of confirmed cases (April 13)

CSSEGISandData / COVID-19

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases, provided by JHU CSSE

https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/

29.12k stars 18.4k forks source link

France: still wrong number of confirmed cases (April 13) #2173

Open alfkoehn opened 4 years ago

alfkoehn commented 4 years ago

Number in database here: 136779

Number in other data sources [1,2]: 98076

37103 cases too much, probably due to also including potential cases (and not only confirmed cases), see e.g. the discussion [3] and an official statement [4].

[1] https://github.com/opencovid19-fr/data/blob/master/ministere-sante/2020-04-12.yaml [2] https://dashboard.covid19.data.gouv.fr/ [3] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/issues/2005 [4] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/issues/2094

JiPiBi commented 4 years ago

You are right : in issue 2094 JHU announced that they will correct the time series , but they didn't ......

For that reason, and in the interest of accuracy, we are reverting our numbers to reflect only those confirmed by the French Health Ministry and will be retroactively adjusting our time series data. We will continue to monitor the situation and will adjust our approach if a more appropriate way forward presents itself.

yetzt commented 4 years ago

most media have been reporting speculative cases as confirmed cased for over a week now.