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Inconsistencies in country/state codes yield empty cases chart in Puerto Rico Mutation Report #355

Open sacundim opened 3 years ago

sacundim commented 3 years ago

This is related to:

In the location tracker for Puerto Rico, the daily case chart shows up empty, even though the rest of the page has data:

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Here's the URL for that location tracker, note the URL parameter loc=PRI:

Now note that if we search for Puerto Rico in the "COVID-19 Cases & Deaths" option in the front page, the autocomplete offers us both "Puerto Rico" and "Puerto Rico State, USA" as options:

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These two options take you respectively to the following two URLs, and again, note the location parameters:

The location=PRI page is obviously broken. Since the variant location tracker's URL at the top of this report says loc=PRI, I'm guessing it's affected by the same problem as this daily new cases chart:

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The location=USA_US-PR page does have a time series:

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gkarthik commented 3 years ago

Hey @sacundim, thank you for pointing this out, and figuring out the wrong ID mapping. We will have a fix for this in the next release.