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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases, provided by JHU CSSE
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Deaths in New York Discrepancy #2247

Open h-max92 opened 4 years ago

h-max92 commented 4 years ago

Looks like deaths in New York spiked from ~700 to over 2,000 overnight - is this new data being reported or an issue in the data?

methurst commented 4 years ago

Perhaps due to confusion about presumed vs. confirmed deaths. What happened is that the CDC issued new guidelines asking states and localities to tabulate presumed covid-19 deaths as well as confirmed deaths. NYC was one of the first localities to separately report presumed and confirmed coronavirus deaths. Some newspapers reported "a new death toll" by combining both reports. Presumably, over time the presumed deaths will be investigated and some of them will be determined to be confirmed deaths. Until then, the previously reported confirmed death tolls remain what they are.