Louisiana

April 22, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On April 22, 2020, Louisiana started reporting probable deaths. We began capturing confirmed deaths on April 27, 2020 and probable deaths on May 12, 2020. It was unclear whether their main deaths number included probable deaths or excluded them so we had some switching between using the main number as confirmed and subtracting the probables from the main number to get confirmed. On May 5, 2020, the state clarified to us that their main death number did not include the probables and we settled on using a consistent calculation. However, the confirmed deaths numbers got shifted backward four days in the timeseries for May 3, 2020 to May 10, 2020, leading to a misalignment between confirmed and lumped deaths. As a result, we are patching confirmed deaths, probable deaths and total deaths from screenshots for April 22, 2020 to May 12, 2020 so that confirmed deaths is the main number Louisiana reported, probable deaths is filled (since it was previously empty), and lumped deaths is the sum of the two.

February 16, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies State / Metric No Update State Data Note

On February 16, 2021, Louisiana announced that there would be no update to their data due to Mardi Gras.

February 10, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On February 10, 2021, Louisiana [announced](https://twitter.com/LADeptHealth/status/1359562769205522436?s=20) that due to a processing error, the day's case and test counts are incomplete.

February 7, 2021 to February 8, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On February 7, 2021, Louisiana [noted](https://twitter.com/LADeptHealth/status/1358475247410905091?s=20) on its Department of Health's twitter that "due to a technical issue, today’s reported case and test counts only include one day of data. Because of the daily removal of newly identified duplicates and out of state cases, the new case increase may not match the difference between today’s and yesterday's total case count." Subsequently, on February 8, 2021, Louisiana [noted](https://twitter.com/LADeptHealth/status/1358838000961134593?s=20) that case and test counts reported on February 8, 2021 included two days of data.

February 7, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On February 7, 2021, Louisiana [noted](https://twitter.com/LADeptHealth/status/1358475247410905091?s=20) the following: "Due to a technical issue, today’s reported case and test counts only include one day of data. Because of the daily removal of newly identified duplicates and out of state cases, the new case increase may not match the difference between today’s and yesterday's total case count."

January 17, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On January 17, 2021, Louisiana announced that their deaths reflected deaths reported to the Louisiana Department of Health since January 14, 2021.

January 15, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update State Data Note

On January 15, 2021, Louisiana announced on their [COVID-19 Dashboard](https://ldh.la.gov/coronavirus/) that deaths will not be updated due to a system error. As a result, we were unable to update Deaths (confirmed and probable), Deaths (confirmed), and Deaths (probable).

January 14, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On January 14, 2021, Louisiana announced that their data included a backlog of 916 cases dating back to November 11, 2020, and 4963 tests.

January 1, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update State Data Note

On January 1, 2021, Alaska, Connecticut, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, the Northern Mariana Islands, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont did not update their data, presumably due to the New Years holiday.

December 25, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 25, 2020, Alaska, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont did not update their data due to the Christmas holiday.

May 13, 2020 to December 2, 2020

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Tags: State Annotation / Source Change CTP API / Logic Changes CTP Backfill

LA's total tests are stored in people, but we had made that classification based on information that appeared to only pertain to LTC. LA's language has always been in terms of "tests" and the numbers seem to indicate specimens compared to HHS data, and based on test positivity. On December 3, 2020, we moved this to specimens, consistent with the way we've treated other states that use similar language.

December 2, 2020

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Tags: State Data Note State Anomalies

On December 2, 2020, Louisiana reported a backlog of 1551 cases. As a result, not all new cases reported on December 2, 2020 were reported in the previous 24 hour period.

December 1, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On December 1, 2020, Louisiana reported that due to a processing error, data reported on December 1 also includes data from November 29-30.

November 30, 2020

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Tags: State Data Note State Anomalies

On November 30, 2020, Louisiana released a public note on Twitter, reporting that the day's drop-off in tests and cases was due to a lack of testing over Thanksgiving weekend, and "Because of the daily removal of newly identified duplicates and out of state cases, the new case increase may not match the difference between today’s and yesterday's total case count. The collection dates for all of these cases fall between November 23 and November 29, 2020."

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 20, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On November 20, 2020, Louisiana reported a backlog of 2,538 cases on 69,125 tests, with specimen collection dates ranging from 9/12-11/18, in it's total cases. As a result, not all new cases reported on November 20, 2020 were identified in the previous 24 hour period.

November 13, 2020

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Tags: New Metric CTP Backfill

On November 13, 2020, Louisiana began reporting Total antigen tests (specimens). We began reporting accordingly.

November 11, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 11, 2020, Louisiana did not update their COVID-19 Dashboard in observance of Veterans Day.

October 30, 2020

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On October 30, 2020, Louisiana's Currently hospitalized and Currently on ventilator values did not update due to hurricane disruptions.

October 30, 2020

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On October 29, 2020, LA released a public note stating that they "will not be updating hospital-related data tomorrow (10/30)."

August 26, 2020 to September 3, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill New Metric

LA started reporting probable cases 8/26, and we hadn't been adding them to our confirmed for Total Cases (positive). Now it's been fixed

August 30, 2020

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On 8/30, LA released this statement: "On 8/30/2020 LDH reports a total of 1,645 cases reported to the state since 8/28/2020. This includes a backlog of 532 cases with specimen collection dates as far back as 7/1/2020."

March 7, 2020 to August 27, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill State Annotation / Source Change New Metric

LA data dictionary now confirms that all the cases they report as "Cases Reported" are confirmed with PCR tests so we are copying the cases number to Positive Cases (PCR)

August 26, 2020 to August 27, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill New Metric

LA started reporting probable cases on 8/26. We are backfilling the values for 8/26 and 8/27

August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020

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

June 27, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On June 27, 2020 Louisiana did not update their COVID-19 data due to a "planned power outage."

June 19, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On June 19, 2020, Louisiana's Cases (confirmed and probable) and Cases (confirmed) dropped by 119 due to the identification of duplicate cases and out-of-state residents included in the count.

June 18, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update State Data Note

On June 18, 2020, Louisiana noted that they were "reviewing all data and will not be updating its dashboard today."

June 16, 2020

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Tags: State Data Note State Anomalies

On June 16, 2020, Louisiana noted that the Total case count for the day "includes a backlog of 148 cases, the majority of which date back to mid-April."

May 29, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update State Data Note

On May 29, 2020, Louisiana noted that "due to network technical issues, case and testing data could not be updated today. The data on deaths and hospitalization have not been impacted."

April 19, 2020 to April 24, 2020

On May 6, 2020, we adjusted Louisiana's test numbers from April 19 2020 through April 24, 2020 to reflect updates they provided after review of commercial lab data.