edomt
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2 years ago Hi @pearcircuitmike
I believe this is most likely due to the software or script you're using to import the data, which must be replacing NA values with 0 automatically.
In our CSV file, these values are set to NA after the last known death:
The reason why we don't fill total_deaths forward is that some countries report monkeypox data very irregularly, which means we don't always know whether new deaths have occurred since then.
For example, the "world" metric shows total deaths drop to zero. This is impacting other countries, like Brazil. A possible solution would be to update the code so the generated file shows "total deaths" as a running total of "new deaths." Looks like that was what was happening until a few days ago - now there's lots of empty/zero values for total deaths.