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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases, provided by JHU CSSE
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Notification of Changes: COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine data, manual data collection efforts, and cadence of reporting #6082

Open CSSEGISandData opened 2 years ago

CSSEGISandData commented 2 years ago

Please see the following announcement from https://github.com/govex/COVID-19/issues/589. The below stated changes do not impact the frequency of or the data hosted in the files in this repository (e.g., csse_covid_19_data).

The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC) is scheduled on Sept. 21, 2022, to implement several changes to the data collection processes it has operated since the beginning of the pandemic.

Cadence Change: The CRC is shifting to updating all data on the website on a daily, rather than hourly, cadence seven days a week.

Reason: States and countries report cases, deaths, and vaccination data at different times for different periods and with different parameters, rendering hourly updates ineffective at relaying useful information.

Testing Change: The CRC is ending its Testing vertical. The website will no longer report any testing results and test positivity rates for U.S. states. Existing graphics and information on the website will remain visible but static.

Reason: Testing data is no longer reliable enough to determine rates of positive results because of the increase in at-home tests that are not reported or tracked by official government channels.

U.S. & Global Vaccine Data Change: The CRC will begin to use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as its source for U.S. vaccination data rather than the proprietary network of data pipelines Johns Hopkins built for the collection effort. The CRC will also source global vaccine data to solely to the World Health Organization and Our World in Data.

Reason: The complex, proprietary network of data pipelines built by Johns Hopkins can no longer provide added value to the collection and dissemination of raw data due to changes in how jurisdictions report to their respective national agencies. Therefore, in the United States, the most prudent course is to source the data directly from the CDC, and, globally, to the WHO and OWiD.

Manual Data Collection of Data will Cease. This includes:

anthonydb commented 2 years ago

@CSSEGISandData Thanks for all the great work this team has done for the past 2+ years!

One question: How do these changes affect the commit schedule to this repo?

CSSEGISandData commented 2 years ago

Hi @anthonydb

None of these changes will impact the files located in any branches of this repository. For now, our update frequency will continue as before, including for the web-data (#246) branch.