Alaska

April 13, 2020

Tags: State Anomalies

On April 13, 2020, the number of total tests (PCR) published by Alaska was lower than the day before by 208. We do not know the reason

March 3, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On March 3, 2021, Alaska's Ever hospitalized decreased by 1 without explanation.

February 26, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On February 26, 2021, Alaska updated their COVID-19 data dashboards after the time of our daily update. This late update was corrected in our historical data on February 27, 2021.

February 26, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 26, 2021, New Hampshire and Alaska did not update their COVID-19 data before the time of our daily update.

February 15, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 12, 2021, Alaska [announced](https://twitter.com/Alaska_DHSS/status/1360413364065767424?s=20) via the official Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Twitter that there would be no update to their data on February 15, 2021 due to the Presidents Day holiday.

February 6, 2021

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Tags: State Data Note State Annotation / Source Change

As of February 6, 2021, [Alaska no longer updates](https://twitter.com/alaska_dhss/status/1355349178335944708?s=21) their COVID-19 dashboards on weekends. As a result, we will be unable to update their data on Saturdays and Sundays.

January 20, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On January 20, 2021, Alaska [reported](https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/01/20/tracking-covid-19-in-alaska-record-23-deaths-and-167-infections-reported-wednesday/) a comparatively large increase of 23 deaths due to a review of death certificates.

January 12, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 12, 2021, Alaska did not update their COVID-19 data by the time of our daily update.

January 4, 2021 to January 6, 2021

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Tags: State Annotation / Source Change

As of January 4, 2021, Alaska notes that "counted deaths in Alaska include COVID-19 cases confirmed through a lab result as well as probable deaths based on confirmed COVID-19 clinical and epidemiological criteria as defined by the CDC with no confirmatory lab testing." Clearing confirmed deaths from January 4, 2021 onward.

January 1, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update State Data Note

On January 1, 2021, Alaska, Connecticut, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, the Northern Mariana Islands, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont did not update their data, presumably due to the New Years holiday.

December 25, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 25, 2020, Alaska, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont did not update their data due to the Christmas holiday.

November 27, 2020

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Tags: State Data Note State Anomalies

On November 27, 2020, Alaska announced a backlog of 13,000 Total PCR tests (specimens) and 1,600 Cases (confirmed and probable) due to reporting delays from a lab.

November 25, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On November 25, 2020, Alaska updated their data after we published our daily update. Later on November 25, 2020, we patched this late update in our historical data.

November 17, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 17, 2020, Alaska did not update their data before the end of our publication shift.

November 17, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On November 17, 2020, Alaska did not update their dashboards in time for our data publish. Later November 17, 2020, we patched this late update. All metrics were updated except for Recovered, which was removed with [this note](https://alaska-coronavirus-vaccine-outreach-alaska-dhss.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/cases-frequently-asked-questions) “As of 11/17/2020, the cases dashboard will not be showing data on recovered and active cases due to the increasing State case load”.

March 6, 2020 to November 15, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP API / Logic Changes New Metric

On November 16, 2020, we backfilled Cumulative hospitalized from March 6, 2020 through November 15, 2020, and we are beginning capture today. Additionally, we removed non-residents from our Cases (confirmed and probable) metric to comply with federal case reporting guidelines and to match our policy in Florida. We adjusted our Negative PCR tests (people or cases) column accordingly. Previously, we copied the positive values from Confirmed cases to Cases (confirmed and probable), but since Alaska's cases value lumps probable cases with confirmed cases, we zeroed out the Confirmed cases time series.

November 6, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On November 16, 2020, we corrected a mistake in the Last Update (ET) field for November 6, 2020.

November 13, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 13, 2020, Alaska did not update their data.

November 11, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On November 11, 2020, Alaska's Recovered decreased by 1.

November 10, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 10, 2020, Alaska did not update their Recovered metric.

November 10, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

The checker on 11/10 entered 11/10 as the date instead of 11/9

November 6, 2020 to November 8, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill State Resumed Metric CTP Backfill Missed Update

AK's testing dashboard was down 11/6-11/8. Backfilled 11/7 and 11/8

November 9, 2020

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On November 9, 2020, Alaska's testing dashboard began to work again. Their Total PCR tests (specimens) decreased by about 13,000 tests. As a result, Negative PCR tests (people) also decreased. We were unable to find an explanation for this.

November 7, 2020

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On 11/7 AK announced that their testing dashboard would be down from 11/6-11/9. We updated total tests pcr, pos. tests pcr, and neg. tests pcr from their testing data summary tables. However on 11/8, we made the decision to freeze these metrics until 11/9 when we will hopefully have more clarity. Reverting total tests pcr, pos. tests pcr, neg. tests pcr, and neg. cases to 11/6 numbers.

November 6, 2020

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On November 6, 2020, Alaska's Total PCR tests (specimens) decreased by 525 tests, from 681,826 to 781,301.

November 5, 2020

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On November 5, 2020, Alaska's Total PCR tests (specimens) increased by 153,368 PCR tests. We were unable to find an explanation for the increase.

November 1, 2020

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On November 1, 2020, Alaska did not update Total PCR tests (specimens), Total positive tests (specimens), Total negative tests (specimens), and Total negative tests (people).

October 19, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On October 29, 2020, Alaska noted that on October 19, 2020 "there was a glitch in the Teletracking system and as a result some counts were under-reported." This affected the metrics Now hospitalized and Now on ventilator.

September 26, 2020 to October 12, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

Updating AK hospitalization and vent use to the summed numbers from the hospitalization dashboard. The dashboard had split views for all regions during the shift instead of showing the summed hospitalized PUI

October 10, 2020

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On October 10, 2020, AK had an apparent typo for their Currently Hospitalized number. Instead of 10+1, we used 44+22, sourced from a chart on their ArcGIS dashboard. See private notes for details.

September 23, 2020 to September 28, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

Between September 23, 2020 and September 28, 2020 Alaska was unable to update the **Now hospitalized and Now on ventilator **metrics "due to the transition from collecting data through the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association (ASHNHA) to reporting directly to the CDC’s HHS Protect TeleTracking system." We carried over the values during this time.

September 18, 2020

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Tags: CTP API / Logic Changes CTP Backfill

Multiple states were switched to use direct columns

August 7, 2020 to September 15, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

blank out a hospitalizedCurrently cell

May 3, 2020 to September 15, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

push all of AK to staging

August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020

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States Grades not published for 8/12-8/13

August 6, 2020

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AK updated the state dashboard. Pos and Neg PCR tests (specimens) are now available and will begin to be recorded 8/6; Nonresident Recoveries are also now available and will be recorded starting 8/6 (this will increase recoveries by ~175). (backfill for these fields is being looked into). Source notes were also updated in WS2 to reflect changes.

June 3, 2020 to July 19, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On July 20, 2020, we backfilled Positive Cases (PCR) for Alaska from positive metric, since the state was reporting only confirmed cases.

July 16, 2020

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Added 339 non-resident cases to total case counts. AK case counts will now include both types of residents. The non-residents were later removed from our data on November 16, 2020.

May 13, 2020

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Tags: CTP API / Logic Changes

On May 13, 2000 Alaska added language clarifying that their Total test metric was in specimens. On May 18, 2020 we moved Total Tests from Total PCR Tests (people) to Total Tests (PCR).

April 17, 2020

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Tags: New Metric

On April 17, 2020, Alaska started reporting Now hospitalized. We began recording this metric on April 18, 2020.

April 7, 2020

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Tags: New Metric

On April 7, 2020, Alaska started reporting recovered cases.