May 23, 2020 to June 7, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsPeopleViral
Tags: CTP Backfill
Carry over the number of people tested for the period when we did not have a source for it, as a lower bound.
June 1, 2020
Variables affected:
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negative
Tags: CTP Process / Source Change
On June 1, 2020 we began calculating Negatives from Total tests (People) - Total cases, instead of fromTotal tests (specimens) - Total cases. This caused a decrease of about 6,000 in Negative.
March 5, 2021
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
hospitalizedCumulative -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On March 5, 2021, Hawaii did not update its **Currently hospitalized**, **Cumulative hospitalized**, **Currently in ICU**, or **Currently on ventilator** before the time of our daily update.
March 4, 2021
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCumulative
Tags: State Anomalies
On March 4, 2021, Hawaii’s Cumulative hospitalized decreased by 1 from 2,226 to 2,225.
February 26, 2021
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently
Tags: State Anomalies
On February 27, 2021, Hawaii's dashboard showed 1 current hospitalization, a decrease from 30 on February 26, 2021. We suspect this may be an error, and carried over the prior value from February 26, 2021.
February 15, 2021
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCumulative -
hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On February 15, 2021, Hawaii did not update its **Currently hospitalized**, **Cumulative hospitalized**, **Currently in ICU**, or **Currently on ventilator** before the time of our daily update.
February 14, 2021
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On February 14, 2021, Hawaii's **Now hospitalized,** **Now in ICU,** and **Now on ventilator** metrics did not update in time for our publication.
February 10, 2021
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCumulative
Tags: State Anomalies
On February 10, 2021, Hawaii's **Cumulative hospitalized** decreased by 1 without explanation.
April 1, 2020 to February 4, 2021
Variables affected:
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deathConfirmed
Tags: CTP Backfill New Metric
On February 3, 2021, we learned via outreach that Hawaii's "Total fatalities" include only covid confirmed deaths which are confirmed through PCR testing. As a result, we are able to capture Deaths (confirmed) for Hawaii, and are duplicating our Deaths (confirmed + probable) timeseries to Deaths (confirmed), as only confirmed deaths are included.
February 3, 2021 to February 4, 2021
Variables affected:
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totalTestEncountersViral -
positiveTestsViral
Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note
On February 2, 2021, Hawaii's **Total PCR Tests (Test Encounters)** decreased by more than 15,000 and **Positive PCR Tests (specimens)** decreased by more than 150 without explanation.
January 26, 2021
Variables affected:
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death
Tags: State Anomalies
On January 26, 2021, Hawaii reported 60 Deaths (confirmed + probable), the many of which may be due to a death record review. As a result, not all new deaths reported on January 26, 2021 may have been reported in the previous 24 hour period.
January 4, 2021
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently -
death
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On January 4, 2021, Hawaii did not update their hospitalization or deaths metrics.
December 29, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCumulative
Tags: State Anomalies
On December 29, 2020, Hawaii's Cumulative Hospitalized dropped from 1,751 to 1,746.
December 26, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On December 26, 2020, hospitalization metrics did not update for these states.
December 25, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestEncountersViral
Tags: State Anomalies
On December 25, 2020, Hawaii’s Total PCR tests (test encounters) decreased by 6184 without explanation.
December 23, 2020
Variables affected:
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positiveTestsViral
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On December 23, 2020, Hawaii's Positive PCR Tests (people) did not update by our publication time.
December 14, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
hospitalizedCumulative -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On December 14, 2020 Hawaii did not provide updated values for several hospitalization metrics including: Currently Hospitalized, Cumulative Hospitalizations, Currently in ICU, and Currently on Ventilators.
December 7, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On December 7, 2020, Hawaii and South Carolina did not update their Currently hospitalized, Currently in ICU, or **Currently on Ventilator **before the time of our daily update.
December 6, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
hospitalizedCumulative -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On December 6, 2020, Hawaii's hospitalization data points were not updated. This includes Currently hospitalized; Cumulative Hospitalized; **Currently in ICU **and Currently on Ventilator.
November 30, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently -
hospitalizedCumulative -
death
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On November 30, 2020, Hawaii did not update their numbers for Currently hospitalized, Ever hospitalized,
November 23, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On November 23, 2020, Hawaii did not provide updates for **Currently hospitalized**, **Currently in ICU**, and **Currently on ventilator**. Additionally, Hawaii reported 17,354 for **Cumulative hospitalizations**, which we interpreted as a typo. We carried over the previous day's values.
November 22, 2020
Variables affected:
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death
Tags: State Anomalies CTP Process / Source Change
On November 22, 2020, Hawaii still reported 0 deaths on their main dashboard. We used a secondary dashboard to update the number.
November 21, 2020
Variables affected:
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positiveCasesViral -
death
Tags: State Anomalies CTP Process / Source Change
On November 21, 2020, Hawaii reported 17 fewer Confirmed cases. They also reported 0 total deaths on their main dashboard, so we updated that number using a secondary dashboard.
November 20, 2020
Variables affected:
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inIcuCurrently
Tags: State Anomalies CTP Process / Source Change
On November 20, 2020, Hawaii updated their Currently in ICU number to be the same number as their Currently hospitalized number. This would have been an increase of more than 50 ICU-admitted patients. We interpreted this to be a typo because the Currently hospitalized number did not change nearly as much, and we carried over the previous day's value.
November 10, 2020 to November 16, 2020
Variables affected:
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inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently -
hospitalizedCurrently
Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Process / Source Change
On November 17, 2020, we discovered that the hospitalization, ICU, and ventilation graphs on HI's dashboard, are updated more frequently than the donut numbers on the dashboard. We backfilled values from November 10, 2020 through November 17, 2020 for Currently hospitalized, Currently in ICU, and Currently on Ventilator, to ensure our time series is as accurate as possible.
November 16, 2020 to November 17, 2020
Variables affected:
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lastUpdateTime
Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Process / Source Change
On November 17, 2020, we discovered a new timestamp for HI with "data as of" language, which is our preferred timestamp. This language had been on the page since November 16, 2020, so we patched the Last check time (ET) for for November 16, 2020 through November 17, 2020.
November 16, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
hospitalizedCumulative -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On November 16, 2020, Hawaii did not provide updates for Currently hospitalized, Cumulative hospitalized, Currently on ICU, and Currently on ventilator.
November 10, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCumulative -
hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On November 10, 2020, Hawaii did not update Cumulative hospitalized, Currently hospitalized, Currently in ICU, and Currently on ventilator.
November 11, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCumulative
Tags: CTP Process / Source Change
On November 10, 2020, we switched the source for Hawaii’s Currently Hospitalized to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency’s COVID-19 dashboard. As a result, current hospitalizations decreased by 14.
November 6, 2020
Variables affected:
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recovered
On November 6, 2020, we carried over the value for Recovered because Hawaii removed this metric from their dashboard.
March 31, 2020 to April 11, 2020
Variables affected:
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inIcuCumulative -
onVentilatorCumulative
Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction
Remove cumulative hospitalization/icu that we collected in April from reporting and carried over for a few days
October 23, 2020
Variables affected:
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lastUpdateEt
On October 23, 2020, we input an incorrect timestamp for Last Update (ET). On October 26, 2020, we corrected this value.
October 29, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently -
death
On October 29, 2020, Hawaii's Total and Confirmed Deaths decreased by 2. Additionally, Currently hospitalized, Currently in ICU, and Currently on ventilator values did not update.
October 23, 2020
Variables affected:
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lastUpdateEt
On 10/23, we updated HI using screenshots due to it being checked late.
October 19, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
On 10/19, HI did not update their Currently Hospitalized, Currently in ICU, and Currently on Ventilator numbers.
March 4, 2020 to October 8, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsViral -
totalTestEncountersViral -
positiveTestsViral
Tags: CTP Backfill New Metric New Dataset / Timeseries
Adding PCR test encounters to HI and also positive tests PCR
October 8, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsPeopleViral -
negative
On 10/8, HI removed their source for Total PCR Tests (People). Additionally, they decreased their negatives by ~1.5k tests.
March 7, 2020 to October 8, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsViral
Tags: CTP API / Logic Changes
Today, we continue our changes to the values in our original totalTestResults API field, resulting in a ~3.4k increase in daily new tests and a ~131k cumulative increase. We updated the totals for Hawaii.
September 9, 2020 to October 1, 2020
Variables affected:
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recovered -
totalTestsViral -
positive -
dateChecked -
negative
Tags: CTP Backfill New Metric State Annotation / Source Change
On 9/9, HI began to release the number of probable cases (updated weekly). They also updated the annotation on their state page to be just confirmed cases. Backfilling Confirmed/Probable and Lumped Cases columns through 9/9.
September 27, 2020
Variables affected:
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recovered
On 9/27, HI's recoveries nearly doubled due to a new reporting system. This may be the beginning of a larger backlog.
September 5, 2020
Variables affected:
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lastUpdateEt
On 9/5, HI released a new dashboard that now includes hospitalization data, resulting in a number of source changes. Hospitalization data for 9/5 was still taken from Lt. Gov. Josh's Instagram.
September 3, 2020
Variables affected:
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positive
Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note
On September 3, 2020, Hawaii included cases which had been previously diagnosed in their daily update due to an electronic laboratory reporting error." As a result, new cases reported may not have been diagnosed in the previous 24 hours.
August 20, 2020
Variables affected:
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positive
On August 20, 2020, Hawaii noted "that today’s higher case count is partially due to transmission issues with a mainland laboratory’s Electronic Lab Reporting (ELR), over the past two days. Those issues have now been resolved."
August 13, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsPeopleViral -
negative
On 8/13, HI page was not updated, carried over people tested and neg. calc.
August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020
Variables affected:
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dataQualityGrade
States Grades not published for 8/12-8/13
August 8, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
hospitalizedCumulative -
inIcuCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
As of 8/8, Hawaii no longer publishes data on the current number of patients in its hospitals, ICUs, or on mechanical ventilation. Per HI Lt. Governor Josh Green's instructions, we are once again collecting this data from https://www.hawaiidata.org/covid19
August 5, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently -
onVentilatorCurrently
On 8/5, we decided to use the Lt. Gov.'s Instagram for hospitalization updates. On 8/5, the data was released on Instagram after our publish shift time, so backfilling 8/5 hospitalization numbers.
July 28, 2020
Variables affected:
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negative
On 7/28, we miscalculated negatives. We used the total PCR tests (people) value from the previous day (7/27) to calculate negatives instead of the total PCR tests (people) value from 7/28. This was corrected in States Daily.
August 1, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsPeopleViral -
positive -
negative
HI case data on 8/1 will be incomplete due to a reporting lag
July 14, 2020 to July 23, 2020
Variables affected:
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hospitalizedCurrently
On 7/23 we back-filled Hawaii's currentlyHospitalized numbers for 7/14-7/23 from Hawai‘i COVID-19 Daily News Digest
April 22, 2020
Variables affected:
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positive
Positives for 4/22 were incorrectly entered at the time, resulting in an apparent decline. This has been corrected
May 15, 2020
Variables affected:
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negative -
positive
Tags: State Anomalies
On May 15, 2020, Hawaii revised down its Negative (people or cases) by 104 due to a technical error in electronic laboratory reporting. It also revised down its case count by one.
May 9, 2020
Variables affected:
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negative
Tags: State Anomalies
On May 9, 2020, Hawaii's Negative (people or cases) decreased by 356 without explanation.