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Source code and data for The Economist's covid-19 excess deaths tracker
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker
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Negative values for covid_deaths #23

Closed abedgell closed 2 years ago

abedgell commented 2 years ago

Why are there negative values for "covid_deaths" in the file "all_weekly_excess_deaths.csv"?

sondreus commented 2 years ago

Hi @abedgell - these reflect adjustments by governments. You can also see them here: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=New+per+day&Relative+to+Population=false&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=DEU~ESP

Hope this answers your questions