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Data Issue: Los Angeles County, November 5 #496

Closed xander-hirsch closed 4 years ago

xander-hirsch commented 4 years ago

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The total cases count in Los Angeles County disagrees with the numbers reported by County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health. These sources have the same data points until November 5th and it continues through the current date. I am unaware of any changes to Los Angeles' reporting standards starting on November 5th.

Date LA Public Health NYT
2020-11-03 311745 311745
2020-11-04 313526 313526
2020-11-05 315564 315634
2020-11-06 317656 317727
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albertsun commented 4 years ago

Hi @amhirsch,

That's when Pasadena started reporting probable cases, i.e. those identified with antigen tests. https://www.cityofpasadena.net/covid-19/#dashboard

Since LA county in their total doesn't report these cases but our overall methodology, and that from the CDC and CSTE does, we've added the ones reported by Pasadena to our overall total.