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MN Data Obsolete #521

Closed ABruceJacobs closed 3 years ago

ABruceJacobs commented 3 years ago

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MN Has published updated vaccination data: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/vaccine/stats/admin.html

tiffehr commented 3 years ago

A point of clarification: we are not including vaccination data in our dataset. It's too new and volatile. So is this marking that our current data (sans vaccination figures) is out of date for MN?

ABruceJacobs commented 3 years ago

Yesterday, this web page

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

....was out of date, showing 3,000 for MN, and referenced the GitHub site as the data source.

This morning, It has a much higher number: 48,189. and instead references the CDC page:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations

The CDC data is much higher than MN DOH, (38,284),

https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/vaccine/stats/admin.html

But the MN DOH site previously had mentioned that it does not include the BIA and VA Federally administered shots.

Thanks for being on it.

Good data is gold.

Bruce Jacobs

St. Paul

From: Tiff Fehr notifications@github.com Reply-To: nytimes/covid-19-data reply@reply.github.com Date: Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 12:25 AM To: nytimes/covid-19-data covid-19-data@noreply.github.com Cc: Bruce Jacobs abjacobs@mac.com, Author author@noreply.github.com Subject: Re: [nytimes/covid-19-data] MN Data Obsolete (#521)

A point of clarification: we are not including vaccination data in our dataset. It's too new and volatile. So is this marking that our current data (sans vaccination figures) is out of date for MN?

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tiffehr commented 3 years ago

This data set here does not include vaccination information at this time. It is among the sources used in our graphic, but the primary source for now for all vaccine data is the CDC. If their numbers are low due to the state not quite following the same methodology as others, there's little we can do about it. We are working on the accuracy of our vaccine data and using multiple sources. But this specific data set is separate from that effort.

Much obliged for the report. We are also keeping tabs on large jumps in the CDC data and possible causes. We are still in the first days of vaccine data reporting.