Mississippi

May 29, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On May 29, 2020 the value for Negative was calculated incorrectly making it look like negatives declined on May 30, 2020. Updating the the value from May 29, 2020 to be Total tests (specimens) - Positive.

May 23, 2020

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Tags: New Metric

As of May 23, 2020, Mississippi is separating out PCR and antibody tests. This caused both Total tests (specimens) and, Negative, which is calculated from Total tests (specimens) - Confirmed cases, to decrease. We now report both separately.

February 10, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill

The carried over value for Mississippi's Positive antibody tests was not cleared from February 10, 2021 when the rest of the time series was cleared. Deleting the value.

June 17, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On June 17, 2020 the value for Mississippi's Negative was calculated incorrectly making it look like negatives declined on June 18, 2020. Updating the the value from June 17, 2020 to be Total tests (specimens) - Confirmed cases.

June 16, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On June 16, 2020 the value entered for Mississippi's Total tests (specimens) incorrectly included the antibody tests done by the state as well as the PCR tests. Updating Total tests (specimens), and Negative which is calculated from Total tests (specimens) - Confirmed cases, from screenshots.

August 28, 2020 to September 14, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On August 24, 2020, Mississippi switched current hospitalization and ICU sources and stopped reporting cur. vent. They resumed reporting this on 9/15. We are backfilling current hospitalizations, cur. icu, and cur. vent for 8/24 - 9/14 from the "Hospitalizations and ICU Use (Statewide)" graph

February 22, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 22, 2021, Mississippi did not update its **Cumulative hospitalized**, **Recovered**, **Deaths (confirmed and probable)**, **Deaths (confirmed)**, or **Deaths (probable)** before the time of our daily update.

February 18, 2021

Tags: State Anomalies

On February 18, 2021, Mississippi advised the following via Twitter: "MSDH is reporting 134 additional COVID-19 cases as of 3 p.m. yesterday, and 7 deaths. We will have limited COVID-19 reporting today as we work to return our website to operation after power loss."

May 21, 2020 to February 9, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Process / Source Change CTP Stagnant Source

From May 21, 2020 through May 26, 2020, we briefly captured Mississippi's Positive antibody tests (specimens) through state press conferences. After May 26, 2020, Mississippi no longer reported new data for this metric and we carried it over. On February 11, 2021, we cleared Mississippi's Positive antibody tests (specimens) timeseries to ensure that our data is as accurate and consistent as possible.

February 10, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 10, 2021, Mississippi and Michigan did not update their **Currently hospitalized**, **Currently in ICU**, or **Currently on ventilator** before the time of our daily update.

February 8, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 8, 2021, Mississippi did not update its **Currently hospitalized**, **Currently in ICU**, or **Currently on ventilator** before the time of our daily update.

February 3, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 3, 2021, Mississippi's Total PCR Tests (specimens) did not update.

January 7, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On January 7, 2021, the Mississippi website was down for a portion of the day due to technical problems, and we could not access their data by the time of our daily update. We were able to update all metrics except for Currently hospitalized, Currently in ICU, and Currently on ventilator in our timeseries on January 8, 2021.

January 7, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 7, 2021, Mississippi announced via the official Mississippi Department of Health twitter that their website was down to technical issues. As a result, we were unable to update their data on January 7, 2021.

January 2, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 2, 2021, Mississippi did not publish updated hospitalization data. Currently Hospitalized, Currently in ICU and Currently on Ventilator data points have not been updated.

December 26, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 26, 2020, hospitalization metrics did not update for these states.

November 29, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 29, 2020, the listed states had a partial or missed update.

November 8, 2020

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On 11/8, MS current hospitalization values updated after we checked the state. We need to backfill cur. hosp, cur. icu, and cur. vent using the hover over graph on their page (note: MS reports hospitalizations on a one day lag.

October 25, 2020

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On 10/25, MS did not update. They left the following public note: "Regular reporting resumes Monday: COVID-19 case and death totals for October 24 and 25 will be published on Monday, along with our regular data summaries and charts”

September 27, 2020 to March 7, 2021

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On 9/27, MS released a note saying that they will now be reporting testing updates on a weekly basis.

May 17, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

We were missing the total tests value on 5/17. Backfilled from screenshot.

June 14, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

Patch of 6/14: Positive(PCR) reported as 19216 and Probables as 300. Screenshots show Positive(PCR) as 19383 and Probables as 133.

June 2, 2020 to July 27, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill New Metric

We have backfilled probables using the formula positives - positive PCR confirmed from 6/02 - 7/28 (which is when CTP first started reporting probables) and cross-referencing with screenshots.

March 24, 2020 to June 1, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill State Annotation / Source Change

As explained by this previous github issue [https://github.com//issues/712] we reported Confirmed (PCR) cases from 4/30-6/01, though it wasn't clear whether the reported cases value represented confirmed cases exclusively. We will delete values in the confirmed PCR column prior to 6/1, after which both CTP and MS started separating confirmed and probable cases on their main state page according to screenshots.

June 19, 2020 to September 5, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

Correct the value on 6/19 for positive cases PCR, which was 20641 when it should've been 20500 because we needed to carry over this value from 6/17.

August 24, 2020

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On August 21, 2020 Mississippi started reporting out antigen testing separately. We began recording this metric on August 24, 2020.

March 24, 2020 to August 13, 2020

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

July 3, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On July 3, 2020, Mississippi did not update their COVID-19 data by our publish time.

June 18, 2020 to June 22, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update State Data Note

Between July 18, 2020 and July 21, 2020 Mississippi did not update the majority of metrics due to technical problems. Reporting resumed on July 22, 2020.

June 13, 2020 to June 14, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On June 13, 2020 Mississippi did not update Total tests (specimens) and so we should have carried over the value for Negative which is calculated from Total tests (specimens) - Confirmed cases. Updating Negative for June 13, 2020 and June 14, 2020 to carry over the Negative calculation.