Arkansas

December 25, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On December 25, 2020, we updated Arkansas' data but forgot to update their Last update (ET). This error was patched in our historical data on April 14, 2021.

February 25, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On February 25, 2021, Arkansas updated their Ever hospitalized and Ever on ventilator after the time of our daily update. We are patching it from the graphic on their official Arkansas Department of Health twitter.

March 2, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On March 2, 2021, Arkansas' **Cumulative on ventilator** decreased by 1 without explanation.

March 1, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On March 1, 2021, Arkansas' Ever hospitalized and Even in ICU did not update by the time of our daily update.

February 28, 2021

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Tags: State Data Note State Anomalies

On February 28, 2021, Arkansas’s Total deaths and Confirmed deaths decreased by over 200. Arkansas [stated](https://twitter.com/ADHPIO/status/1366163333225799682) that this decrease was because of data clean-up and deduplication.

February 25, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On February 25, 2021, Arkansas did not provide updated figure for Cumulative Hospitalized and Cumulative on Ventilator.

February 24, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 24, 2021, Arkansas's Now hospitalized, Now in ICU, and Now on ventilator figures did not update in time for our publication.

February 17, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 17, 2021, Arkansas did not update their **Currently hospitalized**, **Cumulative hospitalized**, **Currently in ICU**, **Currently on ventilator**, or **Cumulative on ventilator** metrics before the time of our daily update.

February 5, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 05, 2021, Arkansas did not update its **Cumulative hospitalized** or **Cumulative on ventilator** before the time of our daily update.

January 13, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On January 14, 2021, we patched Arkansas' late January 13, 2021 update. However hospitalization numbers from January 14, 2021 were accidentally used, and this mistake was corrected on January 14, 2021.

January 13, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On January 13, 2021, Arkansas updated their COVID-19 dashboard after the time of our daily update. This late update was patched in our historical data on January 14, 2021.

January 13, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 13, 2021, Arkansas did not update their data dashboard by the time our our daily update. As a result, we were unable to update their data other than Ever hospitalized and Ever on Ventilator.

January 11, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 11, 2021, Arkansas did not update their Ever hospitalized or Ever on ventilator by the time of our daily update.

January 10, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On January 10, 2021, Arkansas updated their COVID-19 dashboard after the time of our daily update. This late update was patched on January 11, 2021.

January 9, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On January 9, 2021, Arkansas did not update until after our publish time. Patching metrics from updated dashboard and state page.

January 9, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 9, 2021, Arkansas did not update their data before the time of our daily update.

January 6, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On January 6, 2021, Arkansas updated their COVID-19 data dashboard after the time of our daily update. This late update was patched in our timeseries on January 7, 2021.

January 6, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 6, 2021, only Arkansas's Ever hospitalized and Ever on ventilator updated before our publish time.

January 4, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 4, 2021, Arkansas did not provide an update for their Cumulative hospitalized and Cumulative on ventilator numbers.

January 2, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On January 2, 20201, Arkansas's dashboard did not update before our publish time. Patching in all metrics except cumulative hospitalizations and on ventilators, which we updated from the state Covid-19 page.

January 2, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 2, 2021, Arkansas did not publish updated data by the time of our daily update.

January 1, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On January 1, 2021, Arkansas updated their COVID-19 data dashboard after our daily update. All metrics except for Ever hospitalized, and Ever in ICU, which we were able to update on January 1, 2021, were patched on January 2, 2021.

January 1, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 1, 2021, Arkansas did not update their COVID-19 dashboard by the time of our daily update. As a result, we were unable to update all metrics except for Ever hospitalized and Ever on Ventilator.

December 26, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On December 26, 2020, Arkansas reported their Cumulative on Ventilator metric dropped by 1.

December 24, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On December 24, 2020, Arkansas did not update their COVID-19 dashboard by the time of our daily update. This late update was patched later on December 24, 2020.

December 24, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 24, 2020, Arkansas did not update their COVID-19 dashboard by the time of their daily update. As a result we were only able to update their Ever hospitalized and Ever on Ventilator

December 9, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On December 9, 2020, Arkansas updated their COVID-19 dashboard after the time of our daily update. This late update was patched on December 10, 2020.

December 9, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 09, 2020, Arkansas did not update by our data publication time.

November 28, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On November 28, 2020, Arkansas did not update their Total antigen tests (people), Positive antigen tests (people), Negative antigen tests (people), Total PCR tests (specimens), Negative PCR tests (specimens), Positive PCR tests (people), Probable cases, Cases (confirmed + probable), Negative PCR tests (people), Recovered, Deaths (confirmed + probable), Deaths (confirmed), or Deaths (probable) before the time of our daily update. Early on November 29, 2020 this late update was patched in our historical data.

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 15, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On November 16, 2020, we backfilled Cumulative hospitalized and Cumulative on ventilator numbers from November 15, 2020 because Arkansas did not update these numbers during our publication shit.

November 14, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 14, 2020, Arkansas did not update their dashboard. We were only able to update hospitalization numbers.

April 16, 2020 to April 28, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

Carry over deleted (due to staleness) cumulative numbers for 4 days in April

November 1, 2020

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On November 1, 2020, Arkansas did not update their metrics besides hospitalization numbers.

September 26, 2020 to October 7, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

Yesterday the dash did not update by the time we published. I patched metrics from dash and corrected cur. hosp + cur. icu which were sourced from the graphic.

September 20, 2020 to September 25, 2020

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Between September 20, 2020 and September 25, 2020 Arkansas's Antigen test metrics increased and decreased dramatically several times.

September 20, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On 9/20, we updated recoveries using the value reported on the dashboard, not the graphic on the state page. Backfilling with the graphic value in order to have a more consistent time series while we investigate which source is the best/most consistent one.

September 21, 2020

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On 9/21, in addition to recoveries dropping from 67853 to 66934 (-991), AR's antigen test people number jumped from 5216 to 10101 (+5730), and negatives jumped by a similar margin. This jump was preceded by a ~5000 unit decrease the day before.

September 19, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On 9/19, the AR dash was un updated. We did not update from the graphic on that day in case the values would not line up with the time series. We've found that the values do line up, but their update times are lagged.

September 18, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On 9/18, AR did not have an updated graphic from which we could source hospitalization data from. Backfilled with their late update.

September 18, 2020

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Tags: CTP API / Logic Changes CTP Backfill

Multiple states were switched to use direct columns

September 16, 2020

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On 9/16, Arkansas’ Negative Tests (PCR) dropped by 26,801 tests, causing its Total Tests (PCR) to drop by 26,195 tests. We currently don't know why this happened, but we think it may be due to AR's dashboard switch and resultant data fluctuations.

September 16, 2020

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On 9/16, AR's probable deaths increased from 7 to 147. There was no note on the site to explain this.

September 12, 2020 to September 13, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction State Annotation / Source Change

Negative Tests (PCR) and Negative (People or Cases) - PCR negatives from dashboard, no backfill because incomplete timeseries, but start using the numbers, patch yesterday and write a public note Total Tests (PCR) - PCR negatives + PCR positives from dashboard, no backfill because incomplete time-series, but start using the numbers, patch yesterday and write a public note Positive Tests (PCR) - leave the same (empty); the PCR number is cases Positive, Confirmed Cases, Probable Cases - start getting them from the dashboard and patch yesterday Antigens - submit outreach about the gap between their dashboard and the PDF, keep collecting yesterday’s Deaths for Deaths (confirmed and probable) - we will patch yesterday’s and start using the breakdown Cur hospitalizations - patch 9/12 from page graphic, add warning note Cur vent - patch 9/12 from page graphic, add warning note Cur ICU - keep as using dash Recovered - patch 9/12 and 9/13 from page graphic, add warning note

September 7, 2020

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On 9/7, we began capturing the new antigen test source with confirmed/probable cases found on Saturday 9/5.

September 5, 2020

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On 9/5, AR released a PDF with antigen test values and confirmed/probable cases. We did not use this new source on 9/5.

September 3, 2020 to September 6, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill New Dataset / Timeseries New Metric

AR added probable/confirmed breakdowns going back to 9/3

July 31, 2020 to September 6, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill New Dataset / Timeseries New Metric

Starting 9/3 Arkansas started providing the information about Total Antigen Tests, Positive Antigen Tests, and Negative Antigen Tests and some more values for some ranges going back to 7/31. This is to backfill the information from 7/31 onward.

September 3, 2020 to September 7, 2020

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On September 3, 2020, Arkansas began reporting probable cases according to the most recent CSTE definitions, in addition to confirmed cases, adding 423 new cases. It also began reporting total, positive and negative antigen testing volume. Annotations have been updated to reflect.

September 5, 2020 to September 6, 2020

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AR has started publishing a daily pdf which includes data for pos, neg, and total antigen tests as confirmed, probable, and total cases. The pdf also includes an "as of" timestamp. We should start collection the data points mentioned above using data from the pdf, which includes backfilling data for 9/5, 9/6, and other days when the pdf was published but the old process was used.

August 3, 2020

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AR started including a table with their slides. The table includes antigen pos and neg.

August 31, 2020

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On 8/31, “Over 11,300 negative tests added to database due to a commercial lab that was not reporting all negative tests.” The state reported 665,811 negative tests today, an increase of 13,980 from what we captured yesterday.

August 15, 2020 to August 25, 2020

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AR shared a value for its total number of antigens verbally in a presser on 8/20 (10,358: see 2:33 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cqwYiMx7EY) significantly higher than what we found on the slides they post on their website a few days later on 8/25 (3,610 tests in https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/briefing_slides_8_25.pdf). We have conducted outreach to ask why this discrepancy exists and for a full time series of the metric. In the mean time we are carrying over the old value (1836) from 8/20-8/24 and using 3,610 from 8/25 onward.

August 25, 2020

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On 8/25, AR moved all of their reports to this page: We now use this link to get antigen test numbers and reports: https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/programs-services/topics/covid-19-reports

March 6, 2020 to July 3, 2020

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AR reports total tests in unclear units. Prior to 7/3 CTP captured them in the "people" column. This moves the whole time series to "Total Tests (PCR)" column to indicate that we are unlear on the units. Outreach to AR will be performed

August 17, 2020

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On 8/17, the state of AR does not update testing and therefore no new negative figures.

August 15, 2020

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On 8/15, due to deduplication and the removal of out-of-state cases, drops were noted in Total cases, Confirmed cases, Cumulative hospitalizations, and Cumulative ICU admissions.

August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020

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

August 11, 2020

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On 8/11, we decided to begin copying over Negative (People or Cases) values into the Negative Tests (PCR) column. AR reports negative tests as specimens, but due to the staggered transition to a state by state methodology that eliminates fakery, we are choosing to record the negative test values in both columns for now.

March 6, 2020 to April 28, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On July 20, 2020, we updated Positive Cases (PCR) for Arkansas, for dates before April 28, 2020, copying them from positive since the state was reporting only confirmed cases.

April 22, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On April 22, 2020, Arkansas's Deaths (confirmed and probable) decreased by 1 due to the removal of a non-resident from the total (https://youtu.be/w8GFXc1uI10?t=762).