Maine

May 4, 2020

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Tags: State Annotation / Source Change State Anomalies

On May 5, 2020, Maine began splitting out confirmed and probable cases. Its cases metric had previously been called Confirmed cases, but the new Confirmed cases metric dropped by 49 from the old one.

March 5, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On March 5, 2021, Maine's **Deaths (confirmed and probable)** decreased by 1, due to a corresponding decrease in **Deaths (confirmed)** without explanation.

March 7, 2020 to March 3, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill

Remove mixed-unit negatives column

March 13, 2020 to March 4, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On March 04, 2021, ME's Total Tests Results is drawn from Total Test Viral instead of Pos+Neg.

March 11, 2020 to March 3, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill

Use Maine's "Daily Lab Results" data to backfill PCR and antigen testing time series. It differs from our previously collected data in that it only tracks tested residents.

March 3, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On March 3, 2021, Maine's Positive antigen tests (specimens) decreased by 43 without explanation.

March 2, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On March 2, 2021, Maine's **Positive antibody tests (specimens)** decreased by 1 without explanation.

February 26, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On February 26, 2021, Maine's **Cumulative hospitalized** decreased by two without explanation.

February 19, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 19, 2021, Maine did not update its testing data before the time of our daily update. As a result, we were unable to update the testing metrics as well as **Negative PCR tests (people)**.

February 15, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 15, 2021, Maine did not update their testing data due to the holiday. As a result, we were unable to update the testing metrics as well as **Negative PCR tests (people)**, which is taken as the difference between **Total PCR tests (specimens)** and **Confirmed cases**.

January 18, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 18, 2021, Maine did not update their testing data due to the holiday. The next expected update will be Tuesday, January 19, 2021.

January 4, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 4, 2021, Maine's current hospitalization metrics' updates are from the previous day.

December 25, 2020 to December 27, 2020

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Tags: State Data Note State / Metric No Update

On December 25, 2020, Maine announced on their [COVID-19 page](https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/epi/airborne/coronavirus/data.shtml) that some of their data would not be updated between December 25, 2020 and December 27, 2020 due to the holiday. As a result, we were unable to update Maine’s testing and current hospitalization data on December 25, 2020.

December 25, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 25, 2020, Maine announced on their COVID-19 page that some of their data would not be updated between December 25, 2020 and December 27, 2020 due to the holiday. As a result, we were unable to update Maine’s testing and current hospitalization data on December 25, 2020.

December 12, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 12, 2020, Maine's testing data did not update.

December 9, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On December 09, 2020, Maine reported 36,632 Total Antigen tests which is a reduction from yesterday's number. It looks like a typo based on the sum of pos + neg + indeterminate, which is 38,632.

November 30, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On November 30, 2020, Maine’s Total antigen tests (specimens) and Negative antigen tests (specimens) increased by roughly 11,000, and their Positive antigen tests (specimens) increased by about 400 without explanation.

November 29, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 29, 2020, the listed states had a partial or missed update.

November 27, 2020

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Tags: State Data Note State / Metric No Update

On November 26, 2020, Maine announced on their COVID-19 page that there would only be partial updates to their data from November 26, 2020 to November 29, 2020 due to the Thanksgiving holiday. As a result, we were unable to update testing data, and current hospitalization data on November 26, 2020, and unable to update all data points except for Currently hospitalized, Currently in ICU, and Currently on ventilator on November 27, 2020.

November 26, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 26, 2020, the listed states either released partial updates or did not update their data at all.

November 13, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On November 13, 2020, Maine reported a 1 unit decrease in Positive antigen tests (specimens).

November 11, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 11, 2020, Maine did not update testing and hospitalization data: only Cases, Deaths, and Recovered were updated.

November 2, 2020

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Tags: New Metric CTP Backfill

ME started reporting Total, pos and neg antigen tests. Added today's value (10).

October 29, 2020

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On October 29, 2020, Maine's Cumulative Hospitalized decreased by 1.

October 15, 2020

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On 10/15, ME revised down all their Antibody Test values. We were unable to find a reason for this.

October 13, 2020

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On 10/13, ME's testing numbers updated, but they had pretty anomalous values with no explanations found. The changes were as follows: Total Tests (PCR): 490461 > 513658 Positive Tests (PCR): 7005 > 6462 Negative Tests (PCR): 483143 > 506879 Total Antibody Tests: 10559 > 10498 Positive Antibody Tests: 530 > 347 Negative Antibody Tests: 10015 > 10139

October 3, 2020

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On 10/3, ME stopped reporting tests and current hospital metrics on weekends as of this week.

September 22, 2020 to September 23, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On 9/22, due to technical difficulties, ME did not update their testing data, so CTP carried over values for total, positive, and negative antibody and PCR tests. ME released the correct testing values.

March 7, 2020 to April 28, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP API / Logic Changes

Copying Maine's Total Cases into Confirmed prior to 5/4 since they were only reporting confirmed cases up until that point.

May 4, 2020 to July 27, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill New Metric

CTP started reporting probables on 7/28. ME started reporting values for probables on 5/4, and we can reasonably backfill by calculating positive (confirmed + probables) - positive PCR cases back until 5/4.

June 3, 2020 to September 5, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

We incorrectly input values for positive cases (PCR) on 6/9 and 6/3. These have been fixed based on screenshots!

August 17, 2020

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On 8/17, the state of ME decreased cumulative hosp. from 400 to 399, likely a revision

August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020

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

August 4, 2020

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On 8/4, ME's death and cumulative hospitalization counts both decreased by 1 with no explanation.

July 11, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On July 11, 2020 Maine did not update any of their test metrics, so we carried over Total, Positive, and Negative Antibody and PCR tests, as well as the Negative metric. On July 13, 2020, we were able to backfill all the values for July 11, 2020.

June 24, 2020

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Tags: State Data Note

On June 23, 2020, Maine began reporting the dates of Cases, deaths, recoveries, and hospitalizations on the day they occurred instead of the day the event was reported. Maine also began providing separate figures for Confirmed deaths and Probable deaths.