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Data Issue: For France Covid death count is stale #655

Closed MehraSakshi closed 2 years ago

MehraSakshi commented 2 years ago

For France, total number of deaths till 9th January, as per Github - https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_daily_reports/01-09-2022.csv is 122872.

When checked on other sources, data fluctuates : NYT : https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/france-covid-cases.html is 126427 Worldometer : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/ is 125438 santepubliquefrance : https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/dossiers/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-chiffres-cles-et-evolution-de-la-covid-19-en-france-et-dans-le-mond is 125438

Can you please confirm if it is expected or needs a fix?

tiffehr commented 2 years ago

We have changed over to use Johns Hopkins University's data for France, since France itself discontinued a source site that previously provided greater sub-geographic breakdowns than those available on www.data.gouv.fr. ~I'll look into why our CSV entries are plateaued. Thank you for the alert on that.~

I misunderstood the question. The entries are different between the sources probably based on what kind of addition orgs choose to do. We sum the JHU's territories into the country's topline figure, where we understand the sub-geography reporting to be more accurate, depending on methodology or reporting speed. We do not try to match other site's figures, but we do try to reverse-engineer their math and understand the implied methodology differences in coming up with their sums, particularly for deaths.