Iowa

@robMerriMath @michael_nielsen You're onto us, Robert. And yes. Now if only we can get the last holdout states to start reporting negatives and then FOIA the historical data, we'll complete the data set. (We hope.)

We want to send an appreciation to Iowa @IAPublicHealth, which made a major update to their data dashboard last week -- and started breaking out race and ethnicity numbers for deaths. https://t.co/7wWvOqHWjO

IA is now one of 10 states we're giving an A+ grade for data quality. https://t.co/CjltUSh6pR

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.

On 10/16, IA reclassified ~10k tests from PCR to antigen, causing its totals to drop. NV redesigned its dashboard and removed the number of people who tested negative, a figure we used to calculate totals. We froze the figure, making NV’s tests appear as all positive for 5 days.

For the 2nd week in a row, LTC facilities reported the highest weekly death toll—over 7,000. It’s likely that winter holiday backlogs and a change in Iowa’s death reporting have influenced this high number. https://t.co/deNSw8Bq5C