Florida

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On January 1, 2020, Florida announced that they would not be updating their data on January 1, 2021 due to the New Year holiday. We were able to update Now hospitalized from Florida's separate hospitalization source.

On December 25, 2020, Florida announced via the official Florida Department of Health twitter that they would not be updating their data on December 25, 2020 due to the Christmas holiday. We were able to update Now hospitalized from Florida's separate hospitalization source.

On December 10, 2020, we cleared Deaths (confirmed) from August 12 onward and are reporting them as Deaths (confirmed and probable). On August 11, Florida added antigen tests to its data definition for deaths, which were previously PCR only.

On November 26, 2020, Florida did not update their data, presumably due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Confirmed cases (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On December 25, 2020, Florida announced via the official Florida Department of Health twitter that they would not be updating their data on December 25, 2020 due to the Christmas holiday. We were able to update Now hospitalized from Florida's separate hospitalization source.

On December 10, 2020, we cleared Deaths (confirmed) from August 12 onward and are reporting them as Deaths (confirmed and probable). On August 11, Florida added antigen tests to its data definition for deaths, which were previously PCR only.

On November 26, 2020, Florida did not update their data, presumably due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Confirmed cases (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On December 10, 2020, we cleared Deaths (confirmed) from August 12 onward and are reporting them as Deaths (confirmed and probable). On August 11, Florida added antigen tests to its data definition for deaths, which were previously PCR only.

On November 26, 2020, Florida did not update their data, presumably due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Confirmed cases (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On December 10, 2020, we cleared Deaths (confirmed) from August 12 onward and are reprorting them as Deaths (confirmed and probable). On August 11, Florida added antigen tests to its data definition for deaths, which were previously PCR only.

On November 26, 2020, Florida did not update their data, presumably due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Confirmed cases (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On December 10, 2020, we cleared Deaths (confirmed) from August 12 onward and are reprorting them as Deaths (confirmed and probable). On August 11, Florida added antigen tests to its data definition for deaths, which were previously PCR only.

On November 26, 2020, Florida did not update their data, presumably due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On December 10, 2020, we cleared Deaths (confirmed) from August 12 onward and are reprorting them as Deaths (confirmed and probable). On August 11, Florida added antigen tests to its data definition for deaths, which were previously PCR only.

On November 26, 2020, Florida did not update their data, presumably due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On November 26, 2020, Florida did not update their data, presumably due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data for Florida non-residents in our deaths and hospitalizations figures but not in cases and tests. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On November 22, 2020, Florida did not update their daily COVID-19: summary of cases and monitoring report by the time we published our data. As a result, we were unable to update Total PCR tests (specimens), Positive PCR tests (specimens), Negative PCR tests (specimens), Positive PCR tests (people), and Probable cases.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypesfields values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On November 3, 2020, Florida’s Positive PCR Tests (specimens) dropped by over 200 with no explanation.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On October 30, 2020, the number of negative residents ('T_NegRes') remained unchanged on Florida's ArcGIS layer. The number of unique people tested in 'totalTestsPeopleViral' draws from 'T_NegRes' and 'C_AllResTypes' fields on Florida's ArcGIS layer.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypes values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On October 26, 2020, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. We started capturing this data in our totalTestEncountersViral field. As of October 27, 2020, Florida's total test results are also drawn from our totalTestEncountersViral field instead of calculated via the number of unique individuals testing positive and negative. The number of unique people tested, now drawn from the T_NegRes and C_AllResTypesfields values on Florida's ArcGIS layer, is still available in totalTestsPeopleViral. The new encounters time-series only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On October 27, Florida started providing a full timeseries of total test encounters excluding tests from individuals after they test positive. This timeseries only reflects Florida residents, so we have also revised our existing cases figures and unique individuals tested figure to reflect only residents. These changes resulted in a 1.28% decrease in Florida's cases and a 0.38% decrease in Florida's unique people tested.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

On October 21, 2020, only some of Florida's data updated by our publication time. Data points such as Total PCR Tests (People) did not update.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

As of October 13, 2020, Florida's Antigen positive timeseries is stored in our Probable cases field, reflecting a response to our outreach to Florida's health department that it switches Antigen positive cases to PCR positive cases in their daily state report upon confirmatory PCR testing.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data. The state initially reported that this was because Helix Laboratory, a private lab, submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. On October 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that the error was not the fault of the private lab, but was due to "an unforeseen technical issue" that was "not the fault of Helix or the Department of Health." The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4,000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On October 10, 2020, Florida did not report COVID-19 data because a private lab submitted 400,000 previously submitted results, which required extra deduplication time. The state's data for October 11, 2020 appears to include data from both October 10 and 11.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

On August 14, 2020, Florida began distinguishing between people with positive antigen tests and people with positive PCR tests in the Total Cases number given in their daily state report. As of September 30, 2020, we have removed these antigen positives from the values for Cases or Positive PCR tests (people) (positiveCasesViral in our API), so the values for this metric in our time series will be lower. Cases (confirmed plus probable) (positive in our API) will be unaffected.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

Since May 15, 2020, Florida reports total tests in unique people and in unique people tested per lab. For that latter number, if an individual is tested twice by one lab, they only get counted once, but if an individual gets tested twice at different labs, they get counted twice. We store the former value in Total PCR Tests (People), and the latter value, which does not match any of our totals units, in Total Tests (PCR), our specimens field, where we also store testing data with unclear units. This value does not represent the number of specimens.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

Florida combines PCR and antigen tests in the total tests figure reported on the state's dashboard (first noted July 2, 2020). We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

As of May 15, 2020, Florida appears to report total tests in people and in units that resemble specimens (for both PCR and antibody tests, reported separately). We continue to attempt to clarify how all of Florida's testing data is deduplicated.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

As of May 15, 2020, Florida appears to report total tests in people and in units that resemble specimens (for both PCR and antibody tests, reported separately). We continue to attempt to clarify how all of Florida's testing data is deduplicated.

As of July 2, 2020, Florida reports PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

As of May 15, 2020, Florida appears to report total tests in people and in units that resemble specimens (for both PCR and antibody tests, reported separately). We continue to attempt to clarify how all of Florida's testing data is deduplicated.

As of July 2, 2020, Florida reports PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

On September 1, 2020, the Florida Department of Health announced that Quest Diagnostics had reported nearly 75,000 backlogged tests dating as far back as April.

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

We include data about Florida non-residents in all metrics where possible. For some metrics, we use machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, which may not be displayed on its dashboard.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

As of May 15, 2020, Florida appears to report total tests in people and in units that resemble specimens (for both PCR and antibody tests, reported separately). We continue to attempt to clarify how all of Florida's testing data is deduplicated.

As of July 2, 2020, Florida reports PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

We compile much of our daily update from machine queries against the Florida Department of Health's raw data, some of which is not displayed on its dashboard. This raw data includes information about Florida non-residents, which we include in our reporting, while the state of Florida's dashboard displays only Florida-resident data for some metrics.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

As of May 15, 2020, Florida appears to report total tests in people and in units that resemble specimens (for both PCR and antibody tests, reported separately). We continue to attempt to clarify how all of Florida's testing data is deduplicated.

As of July 2, 2020, Florida reports PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

We compile our daily update from the Florida Department of Health's raw data and include both Florida residents and non-residents in our numbers.

On March 21, 2020, Florida began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs in its Negative PCR tests metric.

As of May 15, 2020, Florida appears to report total tests in people and in units that resemble specimens (for both PCR and antibody tests, reported separately). We continue to attempt to clarify how all of Florida's testing data is deduplicated.

As of July 2, 2020, Florida reports PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, 2020, Florida reports Now hospitalized data for those patients with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 12, 2020, the Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

Per reporting, the number of pending tests (available in our API and CSVs) may include only results from public labs, and may therefore be an undercount.

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents.

On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included.

On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.

Per reporting [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241882491.html], the number of pending tests might be an under-count since it might include only public labs.

As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received."

As of July 2, Florida is reporting PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 9, Florida did not update non-resident hospitalizations or deaths on their dashboard or publicly available ArcGIS data by our publication time. We used the data reported on their state report to report the state's data. The state report only includes Florida residents in their data so we carried over yesterday's cumulative number of non-Florida residents (388) who were hospitalized in the state as well as yesterday's number of non-Florida resident deaths (129).

On August 12, Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data from Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents.

On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included.

On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.

Per reporting [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241882491.html], the number of pending tests might be an under-count since it might include only public labs.

As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received."

As of July 2, Florida is reporting PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 9, Florida did not update non-resident hospitalizations or deaths on their dashboard or publicly available ArcGIS data by our publication time. We used the data reported on their state report to report the state's data. The state report only includes Florida residents in their data so we carried over yesterday's cumulative number of non-Florida residents (388) who were hospitalized in the state as well as yesterday's number of non-Florida resident deaths (129).

On August 12, Florida Department of Health reported via Twitter that it had received a large backlog of testing data frmo Niznik Lab Corp in Miami: "The lab reported over 4000 cases occurring over the last 7 weeks, but which had not been reported to FDOH until today. Therefore, this backlog severely skews today's daily report for Miami-Dade and is not reflective of current trends."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents.

On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included.

On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.

Per reporting [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241882491.html], the number of pending tests might be an under-count since it might include only public labs.

As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received."

As of July 2, Florida is reporting PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 9, Florida did not update non-resident hospitalizations or deaths on their dashboard or publicly available ArcGIS data by our publication time. We used the data reported on their state report to report the state's data. The state report only includes Florida residents in their data so we carried over yesterday's cumulative number of non-Florida residents (388) who were hospitalized in the state as well as yesterday's number of non-Florida resident deaths (129).

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents.

On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included.

On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.

Per reporting [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241882491.html], the number of pending tests might be an under-count since it might include only public labs.

As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received."

As of July 2, Florida is reporting PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

On August 7, FL did not update their dashboard or publicly available ArcGIS data by our publication time. We used the data reported on their state report to report the state's data. The state report only includes the cumulative number of Florida residents hospitalized so we carried over yesterday's cumulative number of non-Florida residents (384) who were hospitalized in the state .

On August 9, Florida did not update non-resident hospitalizations or deaths on their dashboard or publicly available ArcGIS data by our publication time. We used the data reported on their state report to report the state's data. The state report only includes Florida residents in their data so we carried over yesterday's cumulative number of non-Florida residents (388) who were hospitalized in the state as well as yesterday's number of non-Florida resident deaths (129).

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents.

On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included.

On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.

Per reporting [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241882491.html], the number of pending tests might be an under-count since it might include only public labs.

As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received."

As of July 2, Florida is reporting PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents.

On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included.

On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.

As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received."

As of July 2, Florida is reporting PCR and antigen tests together.

As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received." As of July 2, Florida is reporting PCR and antigen tests together. As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received." As of July 2, Florida is reporting PCR and antigen tests together. As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received." As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received." As of July 10, Florida is reporting current hospitalizations as those with a "primary diagnosis of COVID-19."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested. However, the "people tested" number reported on Florida's dashboard has come into question as of May 31, because this number is not fully de-duplicated. Florida's report states that: "People tested on multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received."

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested.

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested.

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens (PCR and antibody) and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested.

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of May 15, Florida is reporting both specimens and people tested. We report positives and negatives based on the number of people tested.

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH but we include both Florida residents and non-residents. On March 26, the dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they're still tracked behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to a methodology change: tests of people not investigated as PUIs are now included. As of April 27, Florida reports specimens tested because some people may be tested more than once, this number may be higher than the number of people tested.

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH. On March 26, their dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they still track them behind the scenes.
On March 21, negatives jumped due to change in method: they began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs. As of April 27, Florida is reporting specimens tested. Because some people may be tested more than once, this number is probably higher than the number of people tested.

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH. On 3/26 their dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they still track them behind the scenes.
On 3/21 negatives jumped due to change in method: they began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs.

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH. On 3/26 their dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they still track them behind the scenes.
On 3/21 negatives jumped due to change in methodology: they began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs.

We report using the raw data provided by FDOH. On 3/26 their dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they still track them behind the scenes.
On 3/21 negatives jumped due to change in methodology: they began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs.

We report all positive and negative tests from FL (residents + non-residents) On 3/26 their dashboard stopped including non-residents in its visible counts, but they still track them behind the scenes.
On 3/21 negatives jumped due to change in methodology: they began including tests of people not investigated as PUIs.

Although Florida on 3/26 dropped non-residents from its positives, we report all positives (residents + non-residents) that they record. 3/21 saw a jump in negatives due to change in methodology: they began including tests of people who had never been investigated as PUIs.

3/26 drop in positives due to methology change. Florida has recently changed their accounting and is only reporting residents, apparently based on CDC guidance. Their totals don’t match positives + negatives on their dashboard. We currently only record the positives and negatives until we understand the discrepancy. 3/21 jump in negatives due to change in methodology. Used to only report negatives who were PUIs by state, excluding people tested at commercial/hospital labs and whom the counties never investigated as PUIs.

Drop in positives after 3/26 due to methology change: only Florida residents are now included per CDC recommendation. Jump in negatives on 3/21 due to change in methodology. Used to only report negatives who were PUIs by state, excluding people tested at commercial/hospital labs and whom the counties never investigated as PUIs.

Jump in negatives on 3/21 due to change in methodology. Used to only report negatives who were PUIs by state, excluding people tested at commercial/hospital labs and whom the counties never investigated as PUIs. We directly use FDOH case line data for hospitalizations because the dashboard only reports them on county level.

Jump in negatives on 3/21 due to change in methodology. Used to only report negatives who were PUIs by state, excluding people tested at commercial/hospital labs and whom the counties never investigated as PUIs. We directly use FDOH case line data for hospitalizations because the dashboard only reports them on county level.

Jump in negatives on 3/21 due to change in methodology. Used to only report negatives who were PUIs by state, excluding people tested at commercial/hospital labs and whom the counties never investigated as PUIs. We directly use FDOH case line data for hospitalizations because the dashboard only reports them on county level.

All numbers reported. Dashboard mentions that dashboard is updated around 11am and 6pm daily, so we use the latest of those times for our "Last Update" time. We're using FDOH case line data for hospitalizations.

All numbers reported. Dashboard mentions that dashboard is updated around 11am and 6pm daily, so we use the latest of those times for our "Last Update" time.

All numbers reported.

Deaths from WFLA

All numbers reported as of 3/16. Positives do not include 6 FL residents tested elsewhere. Deaths from WFLA

Florida with a big update now has a dashboard and reported all numbers 3/16. Dropped 872 pending tests on 3/17, then restored pending numbers later in the day.

Florida with a big update now has a dashboard and reports all numbers.

Dropped negatives and pending on 3/16. Carried over both numbers for now. Positive includes deaths.

Positive = Florida residents + non-residents, not Floridians "isolated outside Florida." Positive includes deaths.

We're including both Florida residents and non-residents in the positives, but not Floridians who've tested positive but are "isolated outside Florida." Positive counts include deaths. DO NOT add or subtract deaths when calculating positives or total cases. Last update had no new negative or pending counts.

We’re including both Florida residents and repatriated people from other states, but not the non-Florida resident(s). We’re subtracting the deaths from the Positive Cases count, until further guidance from the state.