February 8, 2021
Variables affected:
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recovered
Tags: CTP Backfill
On February 8, 2021, the spreadsheet indicated 28,986 while the webpage indicated 26,986. We captured the information from the webpage as we routinely did. The following day the number of recoveries in the sheet went down to 27,121. Since there was no explanation, and the webpage time-series is continous, we assume that the spreadsheet number is a data entry error and we are correcting it.
February 23, 2021
Variables affected:
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recovered
Tags: State Anomalies
On February 23, 2021, the District of Columbia's COVID-19 dashboard had a minor discrepancy between recovered values, with the text at the top of the dashboard showing 28,532 recoveries and the embedded dashboard showing 28,531. We reported 28,532 recoveries per our usual sourcing.
February 16, 2021
Variables affected:
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totalTestEncountersViral -
totalTestsPeopleViral
Tags: State / Metric No Update State Anomalies State Data Note
On February 16, 2021, the District of Columbia announced that their testing data for the day would be delayed. As a result, we were unable to update their Total PCR tests (test encounters) or Total PCR tests (people).
February 14, 2021
Variables affected:
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totalTestsPeopleViral
Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note
On February 14, 2021, the District of Columbia’s Total PCR Tests (people), dropped by 1,987 from 426,830 to 424,843 without explanation.
February 12, 2021
Variables affected:
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totalTestsPeopleViral
Tags: State Anomalies
On February 13, 2021, the District of Columbia's totalTestsPeopleViral fell by 751 without explanation.
February 12, 2021
Variables affected:
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totalTestsPeopleViral -
totalTestEncountersViral
Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update
On February 12, 2021, the District of Columbia did not update their COVID-19 testing data by the time of our daily update.
February 13, 2021
Variables affected:
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totalTestEncountersViral
Tags: State Data Note State Anomalies
On February 13, 2021, the District of Columbia reported 426,830 **Total Test Encounters**, which is a decrease of 751 from the figure reported for the previous day. No explanation was available for this decrease.
January 30, 2021 to January 31, 2021
Variables affected:
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onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On January 30, 2021 through January 31, 2021, the District of Columbia did not update Currently on ventilator on their data dashboard or data downloads.
December 27, 2020
Variables affected:
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All Metrics
Tags: State Anomalies
On December 27, 2020, the District of Columbia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota noted that their data for December 27, 2020 would include two days of data due to holiday related reporting cadence changes.
December 24, 2020 to December 27, 2020
Variables affected:
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All Metrics
Tags: State Anomalies
On December 25, 2020, the District of Columbia announced on their [COVID-19 page](https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data) that there would be no update to their data on December 25, 2020 due to the Christmas holiday. Additionally, they noted that the data reported on December 26, 2020 will include numbers from December 24, 2020 and the data reported on December 27, 2020 will include numbers from December 25, 2020 and December 26, 2020.
December 25, 2020
Variables affected:
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All Metrics
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.
December 8, 2020
Variables affected:
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onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On December 8th, 2020 District of Columbia did not update their data for Currently on ventilator.
November 22, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsPeopleViral
Tags: State Anomalies
On November 22, 2020, the District of Columbia’s Total PCR tests (people) decreased by 128, from 288,452 to 288,324, without explanation.
November 19, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On November 19, 2020, District of Columbia did not update their Currently hospitalized and Currently on ventilator numbers.
November 8, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
On November 8, 2020, District of Columbia did not update their current hospitalized numbers. We carried over values for Currently hospitalized, Currently in ICU, and Currently on ventilator.
November 8, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
On November 8, 2020, District of Columbia did not update their current hospitalized numbers. We carried over values for Currently hospitalized, Currently in ICU, and Currently on ventilator.
October 31, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestEncountersViral -
negative
On October 31, 2020, District of Columbia did not update their total tests number, so we carried over Total negative tests (people) as well.
May 23, 2020 to May 24, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestEncountersViral
Tags: CTP Backfill Mistake Correction
On September 19, 2020, we corrected an error in our data for the DIstrict of Columbia's totalTestEncountersViral from May 23 to May 24, 2020.
May 23, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestEncountersViral
Tags: State Anomalies
On May 23, 2020, The District of Columbia's numbers for totalTestEncountersViral dropped by 4,065 due to a review of the data.
May 23, 2020 to September 18, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestEncountersViral -
totalTestsPeopleViral
Tags: CTP Backfill State Annotation / Source Change
Backfill of the total PCR tests (people) timeseries to reflect our understanding that this number is unique people according to outreach
September 18, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestResults
Tags: CTP API / Logic Changes CTP Backfill
Multiple states were switched to use direct columns
March 5, 2020 to August 28, 2020
Variables affected:
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privateNotes -
totalTestsPeopleViral -
totalTestEncountersViral
Tags: CTP Backfill CTP API / Logic Changes New Metric
According to our outreach, the District of Columbia’s “total overall tested” figure on its dashboard represents test encounters, the number of unique individuals tested per day, with one exception: if an individual receives a positive and a negative test on the same day, they are counted twice rather than once. Changed the annotations and moved the timeseries from people to testing encounters to match.
August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020
Variables affected:
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dataQualityGrade
States Grades not published for 8/12-8/13
July 24, 2020
Variables affected:
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recovered
Recoveries increased drastically by 7562 (from 2020 to 9582)
April 7, 2020
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death
Tags: State Anomalies
On April 7, 2020, the District of Colombia's Deaths (confirmed and probable) decreased by 2 without explanation.