Alaska

@Alaska_DHSS @CDCgov Thank you so much for your wonderful, complete presentation of your data. To make sure we record this data correctly, can you clarify if "samples" is equal to "persons tested"? Thank you! https://t.co/jHNCL4J85H

While Alaska reports everything from everyone, Michigan put out a press release saying they were dropping everything but positives. The resources are scarce, but the public deserves to know real positive rates for different states. https://t.co/B15DEnV2ZZ

Worse, we're not able to tell you what the scale of that problem is on a state-by-state or national level. In Texas, private labs are doing ~50% of the testing. In MA, it's less than 25%. In AK, it's closer to 10%.

(Earlier in this thread we mentioned “3 of 4” US Census regions. There are 5 regions, counting the Pacific region, which includes Alaska and Hawaii. Apologies to our non-contiguous readers. —@kissane)

Our daily update is published. We have many incomplete reports from states today and two states missing at our cutoff time (AK and RI). Today’s data reflects the holiday weekend dip in testing and reporting.

47K new cases today. 518K new tests. 242 deaths (corrected from 158). https://t.co/7G4xWqcWFb

We’d like to highlight Alaska for providing test turnaround times directly on their site. They even include a full time series and the most recent 14-day average. This is a great example of data transparency.

https://t.co/3Gwy9blxnY

Update for our data users - we continued to implement changes to our original totalTestResults API field, resulting in a ~600k cumulative test increase since March.

We updated test totals for 14 states: AK, AL, AR, AS, CA, DC, GA, ID, KY, MN, NH, SD, VA, and WA.

The New Mexico chart shows how much more likely ‘American Indian or Alaska Native’ people have been to test positive or die from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, compared to other people in the state. https://t.co/oaZR8Xqh8r https://t.co/KBmLBUznbL

Zooming into the state level, more than 10 states broke case records today: AK, AR, AZ, DE, IN, MA, ME, NJ, PA, RI, and VT. Note: AZ had a higher count on Dec. 1, but it was a data backlog. https://t.co/ao6T6EQxiH

20 states provided no update: AK, CA, CT, DC, ID, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MP, NC, ND, NH, OH, RI, SC, SD, UT, VT.

7 other states made partial updates.

AK announced it will no longer provide weekend COVID-19 updates. Data on Mondays will include weekend backlogs moving forward.

An important caveat: Today's data is missing updates from AK, ID, MP, WA, and WY. Partial updates were provided from several other states. There may be a slight holiday effect reflected in data later this week.

A reminder that some states do not report COVID-19 data on the weekends, and today's figures are missing updates from: AK, CT, KS, LA, MP, NM, RI, and WY. https://t.co/5XpgjRdDH0