Bug or data error in NY deaths

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Open jamesprescott743 opened 4 years ago

jamesprescott743 commented 4 years ago

The Weekly Reported Death rate for NY jumped from 2007 on 5/5 to 7941 on 5/6.

NY reclassified ~1700 nursing home deaths a few days ago but that wouldn't explain such a large jump in weekly rates.

aatishb commented 4 years ago

Thanks for pointing this out. Looks like the folks at NYTimes are aware of this and have commented on this here: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/issues/261

It seems like this is related to their recent decision to include probable cases/deaths: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/PROBABLE-CASES-NOTE.md