Minnesota

March 4, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On March 4, 2021, Minnesota announced that an audit discovered 4 private labs which had not been properly reporting test results to the Minnesota Department of Health. The data for March 4, 2021, includes roughly 31,000 older test results from 3 of these labs.

March 3, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On March 3, 2021, Minnesota and South Carolina did not update their Currently hospitalized, Currently in ICU, or Currently on Ventilator by the time of our daily update.

February 15, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 15, 2021, Minnesota did not update its **Currently hospitalized** or **Currently in ICU** before the time of our daily update.

February 2, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On February 02, 2021, Minnesota reported more Confirmed Cases than Total PCR Tests (people), resulting in a decrease in Negative PCR Tests (people).

January 27, 2021 to January 29, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 28th, 2021, Minnesota [reported](https://mn.gov/covid19/data/response-prep/response-capacity.jsp) a delay in hospital data for January 27th, 2021. Reporting for both dates will be available tomorrow.

January 26, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On January 26, 2021, Minnesota reported more new Confirmed cases than Total PCR tests (people), and as a result Negative PCR tests (people), which is calculated as Total PCR tests (people) minus Confirmed cases, decreased.

January 18, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 18, 2021, Minnesota did not update their Currently hospitalized or Currently in ICU metrics due to the holiday. The next expected update will be Tuesday, January 19, 2021.

January 11, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On January 11, 2021, Minnesota reported that their cases were lower than they otherwise would be by 598 due to data deduplication and that 9193 test results from January 10, 2021 will be reported on January 12, 2021 instead of January 11, 2021.

January 4, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On January 1, 2021, Minnesota reported more new Confirmed cases) than Total PCR tests (people). As a result, Negative PCR tests (people), which is calculated as Total PCR tests (people) minus Positive PCR tests (people), decreased. Minnesota also noted during a [press conference](https://www.facebook.com/MPRnews/videos/885740615534664/) that roughly 650 of the cases reported on January 4, 2021, were a result of a backlog.

January 1, 2021 to January 3, 2021

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Tags: State Data Note

On January 3, 2021, MN included data from January 1 and 2, due to holiday reporting schedule. They note that "Updated January 3, 2021  Updated daily at 11 a.m., with data current as of 4 p.m. the previous day.  In observance of the holiday, we did not update the data on this page on Friday, Jan. 1. Today's post will include data analyzed and reported out for Friday, Jan. 1 and Saturday, Jan. 2. For that reason newly reported case and death numbers may appear greater than normal." Public note updated.

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.

November 27, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On November 26, 2020, Minnesota announced on their [COVID-19 page](https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html) that there would be no update to their data on November 26, 2020 due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Because Minnesota’s data is “current as of 4 p.m. the previous day”, this change in their reporting schedule results in the data reported for November 27, 2020 being the data that would normally have been reported on November 26, 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 1, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

Minnesota's Currently Hospitalized and Currently in ICU numbers were not updated on October 30, 2020.

October 14, 2020

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On 10/14, MN released data for Total Antigen Tests and Positive Antigen Tests, the latter of which we are recording in the Probable Cases field.

October 14, 2020

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On 10/14, MN's Probable Deaths decreased from 53 to 6, resulting in a decrease in Total Deaths from 2197 to 2180.

October 8, 2020

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On 10/8, MN released a new source for Currently Hospitalized and Currently in ICU. For Currently Hospitalized, we captured this data point as non-ICU + ICU.

October 5, 2020

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On 10/5, MN released current hosp/ICU values in their PR after we'd deleted them for being 7 days old two days prior. As of 10/5, curr. hosp. was 367, and curr. ICU was 123. MN PRs update on MWF, so we will look more closely for those values on those days.

October 3, 2020

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On 10/3, we removed current hospital and ICU values because they were 7 days old.

September 24, 2020

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On 9/24, MN no longer reports current hospitalization numbers. We're waiting to see how this develops over the next few days and may send out outreach.

September 18, 2020

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Tags: CTP API / Logic Changes CTP Backfill

Multiple states were switched to use direct columns

March 6, 2020 to September 17, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill State Annotation / Source Change

MN made clear that its Total Tests (PCR) value is actually encounters. Switching to encounters.

August 27, 2020

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On 8/27, due a two-week backlog of tests and results from a single Minnesota lab, there was a unusually high increase in cases. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/08/27/latest-on-covid19-in-mn

August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020

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

July 30, 2020

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On July 30th, MN started re-reporting total tests by unique people. We are starting to track this figure starting on July 30th going forward. This will impact the total test metric that is on our website by 200,000 tests as well as negatives.

March 6, 2020 to June 13, 2020

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In a previous backfill that took place on 6/14, we updated Minnesota's Positives column using state-provided historical data. Minnesota's positives are confirmed cases, so when we did so, we should have also updated the Positive Cases (PCR) column to match what we put in Positives. This has now been done for 6/13 and earlier (the data after that is fine because the Data Entry pub shifts have been setting both correctly since the backfill).

April 24, 2020 to April 25, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On April 26, 2020, while attempting to fix a data entry error for Minnesota on April 25, 2020, we mistakenly put the corrected value for that day in April 24, 2020. This made Negative PCR Tests (people) and Total Test Results incorrect for both days. Both days now have the correct values.

April 24, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

Minnesota's negative test results for April 24, 2020 were incorrectly entered, causing both Negative PCR Tests (people) and Total Test Results to be incorrect. This error has been corrected.