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Global.health Day Zero Outbreak schema
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Consider addition of EpiWeek #13

Open sadiekelly opened 7 months ago

sadiekelly commented 7 months ago

Timing of reports is currently captured using date_report (date case first included in a situation or other report). Would it be useful for aggregation purposes to collate these into EpiWeeks? I understand EpiWeek definitions differ by country, so we could make our standard definition depending on the date_report (OpenDengue has a similar approach to standardise to a universal date format).

abhidg commented 6 months ago

We will document this functionality: in R, use lubridate::isoweek() or lubridate::epiweek(); for Python, use epiweeks package