COVID Tracking Project preferred total test field

Category: State metadata

Locator field that explains which API fields The COVID Tracking Project prefers for each state’s “New tests” chart and on the state’s history page on our website. Selects from the following options in order of priority: totalTestEncountersViral, totalTestsViral, totalTestsPeopleViral, or—where those units are all missing a sufficient time series—totalTestResults.

September 10, 2020, 9:37 AM PDT

Locator field that explains which API fields The COVID Tracking Project prefers for each state’s “New tests” chart and on the state’s history page on our website. Selects from the following options in order of priority: totalTestEncountersViral, totalTestsViral, totalTestsPeopleViral, or—where those units are all missing a sufficient time series—totalTestResults.

September 2, 2020, 10:06 AM PDT

Locator field that explains which API fields The COVID Tracking Project prefers for each state’s “New tests” chart and on the state’s history page on our website. Selects from the following options in order of priority: totalTestEncountersViral, totalTestsViral, totalTestsPeopleViral, or—where those units are all missing a sufficient time series—totalTestResults.