Missouri

@InMediaResMO There is usually a substantial delay baked in.

@hellochante @aidanisagirl @shondagarrison @GovParsonMO Yeah, Missouri, to my knowledge, has very irregular released the number of negatives. We picked up a news report on th le 20th, which is where that total tested comes from. -@alexismadrigal

@AviationStl @MihillChris Yup, Missouri's reporting has been among the least comprehensive of any state.

Our daily update is published. We’ve now tracked 13.8 million tests, up 343k from yesterday.

5 states showed a decline in total tests due to separating out their antibody results: MI, MO, MS, TX, WV.

Details in this thread. https://t.co/y9aPPSnnor

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Zooming back out, 15 states have now set their record for reported cases since June 19. All but one (Missouri) is in the South and West.

(And we know some people do classify MO in the South.) https://t.co/CD4ArI27nJ

While we’re in the Monday lull in data reporting, let’s look at a couple of concerning states outside AZ-CA-FL-TX outbreaks.

Missouri’s percent positive rate has gone from 4.3% the week of June 14 to 6.5% this week, with hospitalizations rising. https://t.co/ahvI7Gdn7W

As of today, we’re still not sure how much the new HHS guidelines for hospital data reporting will affect the data states report. So far, it looks like two states, Idaho and Missouri, have run into trouble. Here’s what the MO Hospital Assoc. had to say: https://t.co/ukf3jezpos https://t.co/2kYAMZPnqz

Unfortunately, today’s current hospitalization number is missing quite a few states.

Yesterday we noted that Idaho and Missouri had stopped updating hospital data while working to comply with the new HHS reporting directive https://t.co/DXKeDH4HP7

Today, ID is back, but we’re missing hospitalization updates from states including AL, AR, CT, IA, LA, MI, MO, MS, NH, OR, RI, SC, and WY. Some due to the new HHS directive, others because it’s the weekend.

We will keep reporting on the availability of this data.

California, Missouri, Oklahoma, and North Dakota all set new records for cases today. https://t.co/sendGsELSU

There are some complex changes in reporting by the state of Missouri. We're doublechecking our numbers there. Standby.

A correction. Missouri recently changed the way they reported cases. We followed their change, but mistakenly used the older method today, which initially made it seem like the state had more cases. We regret the error.

Arizona and Missouri report only facilities with outbreaks, not actual cases, deaths, or facility names—this appears transparent, but doesn’t convey COVID-19’s true impact. County health depts (Maricopa, AZ and St. Louis, MO) provide both states’ most reliable source of LTC data.

When a state fails to update a “current” number for 7 days, we stop collecting that metric until it’s updated again. Yesterday MN hit that mark, and today, MO did. With MO’s numbers, we’d be seeing US hospitalizations at their highest level since Sept. 11. https://t.co/w8rXd3aaPn

A note for Missouri data: today, we continue our changes to the values in our original totalTestResults API field, resulting in a ~8k increase in daily new tests and a ~579k cumulative increase.

Missouri added current hospitalizations back to their dashboard, so we updated this metric in our data. Today’s hospitalization count—1,344—was MO’s highest ever. https://t.co/CqLL0ZF1Bw

Our daily update is published. States reported 944k tests, 47k cases, 34k currently hospitalized, and 464 COVID-19 deaths, with six states not reporting today: CT, KS, MI, MO, NH, RI. https://t.co/tNvtsFLBoF

Missouri has reported today that its data released on October 10, 2020 was “incorrectly inflated” because of a technical error. We don’t have corrected data yet—or any new data from MO today—but we’ll update our dataset when correct figures arrive. https://t.co/8bKD6mQ1Gf

It’s important to note that, sadly, our numbers are an undercount since not all states have been reporting data in the past few days. Both Missouri and Washington haven't updated any numbers since October 10. Arkansas also missed today's update.

We continue to monitor states' ability to report hospitalization figures as requirements from HHS shift. In Missouri, currently hospitalized figures have been underreported since Oct 17 as hospitals face challenges entering data into the TeleTracking portal. https://t.co/5UitlAyOC2

38 states reported over 1k cases. CO, IN, KY, MD, MN, MO, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NV, PA, WV, and UT all set records for detected cases. (5 states did not report cases.) https://t.co/3Gi0ieFO3i

Our numbers, while drastic, are an undercount of COVID-19’s severity in long-term-care facilities. Arizona, Missouri, and New York provide incomplete LTC data, and are the largest contributors to the nation’s LTC undercount. https://t.co/bOWkmNiKjg

Cases and deaths reported in long-term-care facilities declined between Jan 28 and Feb 4 (excluding MO and NY, both of which recorded large backfills of LTC deaths). https://t.co/Mgm6CNqLMb