Several states and counties appear to show a spike in the death count during the week from 11/6 to 11/12. Is that an artifact in my calculations or is something else going on?

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Several states and counties appear to show a spike in the death count during the week from 11/6 to 11/12. Is that an artifact in my calculations or is something else going on? #693

Closed MirrorCola closed 1 year ago

MirrorCola commented 1 year ago

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[ ] Incorrect number of cases or deaths
[ ] Suspicious number of cases or deaths
[ ] Missing data for a locality
[ ] Missing time-series information
[ ] Other

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MirrorCola commented 1 year ago

Looks like you've noted 11/11/22 as anomalous for deaths in many counties. Any comments on what the cause is?

raagnew commented 1 year ago

Bust in US death count is on Nov 11. date | cases | deaths | daily deaths 11/7/2022 | 97515911 | 1068574 | 11/8/2022 | 97537052 | 1068787 | 213 11/9/2022 | 97630738 | 1069707 | 920 11/10/2022 | 97718587 | 1070288 | 581 11/11/2022 | 97729911 | 1083006 | 12718 << 11/12/2022 | 97732486 | 1083008 | 2 11/13/2022 | 97734440 | 1083009 | 1 11/14/2022 | 97785361 | 1083181 | 172 11/15/2022 | 97818425 | 1083484 | 303 11/16/2022 | 97903783 | 1084197 | 713 11/17/2022 | 97986304 | 1084623 | 426 11/18/2022 | 98038669 | 1085139 | 516 11/19/2022 | 98042166 | 1085150 | 11

albertsun commented 1 year ago

Hi all,

Yes, as noted in our anomalies file we started including deaths reported by a new source, the CDC's NCHS which collects death certificates and now reports out the number of Covid deaths per-county by county of residence. This let us identify a large number of counties where it appeared the number of deaths reported by county and state officials were under counted. In those cases where they had reported fewer deaths than CDC we are now using the higher CDC reported number of deaths.

MirrorCola commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation, I saw the anomalies file but didn't understand the cause. As far as I'm concerned this item can now be closed.

Once again, I appreciate all of the work so many of you are doing to compile this and for you to be so responsive.

raagnew commented 1 year ago

I also appreciate the data y'all have compiled since the inception of this pandemic. Trendline distortion should be temporary.

Bob Agnew

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Thanks for the explanation, I saw the anomalies file but didn't understand the cause. As far as I'm concerned this item can now be closed.

Once again, I appreciate all of the work so many of you are doing to compile this and for you to be so responsive.

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