Idaho

We've noticed that "Antigen Tests" on the Laboratory Testing tab of your dashboard has not updated since January 7, 2021. On the Notes tab of the dashboard, it says that "Laboratory testing data will be updated Thursdays by 5 p.m. MT". Is this true for Antigen tests? If so, would it be possible to update this metric on the dashboard?

Those data are updated once a month and that will happen this week.

Would it be possible to show the count along with the percentage for the race and ethnicity data for cases?

The charts for deaths display both; the charts for cases do not.

Thank you

During the week of Oct 4, Multiple Race and Other cases were combined into one category of the race/ethnicity COVID metrics. Why was the decision to combine the two conducted?

We combined the two categories because they contained the same type of data – people who report multiple races or races that don’t fit into the single categories.

We are currently interpreting the "Statewide COVID-19 Laboratory Tests Completed" number as referring to the total number of specimens tested. Is this correct? If so, do you have plans to release the total number of individuals tested? And will you be able to consistently provide historical data for this metric referring to the total number of individuals tested in an automation friendly form, like an ArcGIS or CKAN API or a direct download of CSV or JSON?

Other states provide their COVID-19 testing and outcomes in machine readable format, but as far as we are aware Idaho does not at this time. Do you have plans to release this data in an automation friendly form, like an ArcGIS or CKAN API or a direct download of CSV or JSON?

Do you perform any deduplication to reach the "Statewide COVID-19 Laboratory Tests Completed" number? If so, how? (i.e. instances swabbed per day/week; recording only one positive test per person, but multiple negative tests for the same person; etc.)? When reporting testing results, if the same person gets different test results on different days, would you report raw results as part of the daily positives or do you apply any kind of logic such as reporting only the first negative or positive result per individual?

We’re also interested in testing data in units of “testing encounters”, which can be defined as “the number of unique people who have been tested per day.” Under this metric, if a person is being tested once today and once again the following week, that counts as two tests, however, if the same person has two samples tested at a testing center visit, then that only counts as one testing encounter. Are you willing to or are you planning to release testing encounters? If so, will you be able to provide historical data consistently in an automation friendly form, like an ArcGIS or CKAN API or a direct download of CSV or JSON?

Can they provide historic data back to 5/15?

Please see the data for long-term care facilities at coronavirus.idaho.gov/ltc. The data posted there starting June 5 collects info for LTCFs since the beginning of the pandemic.