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Closed qcSpecialist closed 1 year ago

qcSpecialist commented 1 year ago

Country

United States

Domain

Vaccinations

Which data is inaccurate or missing?

The value of "total_boosters" missing since 1st Sep 2022.

Why do you think the data is inaccurate or missing?

Hi team,

The value of "total_boosters" for US is missing since 1st Sep 2022. I notice the value is available until 6th Dec based on https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/rh2h-3yt2/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

lucasrodes commented 1 year ago

Hi @qcSpecialist, Thanks for your message!

The US reports three metrics: boosters, second boosters and bivalent boosters.

There is some overlap in what is measured by second boosters and bivalent boosters (some second boosters are bivalent boosters). This leads to boosters + second boosters + bivalent boosters > all boosters (i.e. an overestimate). This is what we had so far and what we were publishing.

I tried estimating boosters by computing boosters = total_vaccinations - people_vaccinated - people_fully_vaccinated + janssen_doses_1. However, this leads to irregular values (even some negative numbers), so I discarded this method.

Bivalent doses started in early September (see attached figure or chart at https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends), so estimating boosters after the 1st of September is impossible based on the above reasoning. I am trying to reach out to CDC and see if we can get them to report something like “number of booster doses”.

I hope that this helps, Best,

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qcSpecialist commented 1 year ago

Hi Lucas,

Thank you for your prompt response. Please let me know if there's any update on the progress.

Many thanks.