Oklahoma

January 18, 2021 to January 19, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

Patching Oklahoma's Total PCR tests (specimens), Positive PCR tests (specimens), Negative PCR tests (specimens), Negative PCR tests (people), Pending, Currently hospitalized, and Currently in ICU from January 19, 2021 through January 21, 2021 to ensure that these metrics are consistently on a one-day lag.

January 18, 2021 to January 20, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

Patching Oklahoma's Total PCR tests (specimens), Positive PCR tests (specimens), Negative PCR tests (specimens), Negative PCR tests (people), Pending, Currently hospitalized, and Currently in ICU from January 19, 2021 through January 21, 2021 to ensure that these metrics are consistently on a one-day lag.

February 27, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On February 27, 2021, Oklahoma's Total PCR Tests dropped by 3,314 without explanation.

February 16, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On February 16, 2021, Oklahoma did not publish an EOR. As a result, we were unable to update their testing and current hospitalization data.

February 11, 2021

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Tags: State Data Note State Anomalies

On February 11, 2021, Oklahoma stated in a [press release](https://oklahoma.gov/covid19/newsroom/2021/february/situation-update--covid-19-02-11-2021.html) that the majority of the **deaths** reported in today's figures are from November, due in part to delayed reporting by facilities, as well as additional time taken to investigate cases previously deferred, including deaths that occurred out of state.

February 3, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On February 3, 2020, the Oklahoma Department of Health [cautioned](https://twitter.com/healthyoklahoma/status/1357016405586178050?s=21) that the 52 deaths reported on this date occurred between January 4, 2021 and February 1, 2021, with 32 of them having occurred since January 27, 2021.

January 21, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 21st, 2020, there was no latest EO from the state of OK

January 10, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On January 10, 2021, Oklahoma [noted](https://oklahoma.gov/covid19/newsroom/2021/january/state-department-of-health-comments-on-spike-in-covid-19-case-nu.html) that the rise in COVID-19 cases was in part due to a “decrease in testing and a less consistent reporting schedule over the holidays”. We urge caution when interpreting their data from this time period, and encourage the use of 7 and 14-day averages as more reliable figures than individual

December 27, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On December 27, 2020, the District of Columbia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota noted that their data for December 27, 2020 would include two days of data due to holiday related reporting cadence changes.

October 19, 2020 to December 26, 2020

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Tags: State Annotation / Source Change

On September 8, 2020, OK announced that it would transition to counting both confirmed and probable cases, instead of just confirmed cases. This change appears to have taken effect on October 19, 2020, when OK stopped calling its cases "confirmed positive cases" in press releases, as it had before, switching the wording to "cases." Clearing the confirmed cases field from 10/19 onward.

December 26, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 26, 2020, Oklahoma did not update their testing metrics.

December 26, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

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

December 25, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 22, 2020, Oklahoma noted via a press release that there would be no update to their data on December 25, 2020 due to the Christmas holiday. Additionally, they noted that the data for December 26, 2020 would include only the data that would have been reported on December 25, 2020, and the data for December 27, 2020 would include data for both December 26, 2020 and December 27, 2020. As a result of their executive order reports being on a one day lag, we were able to report all metrics except for Positive PCR tests (people), Cases (confirmed + probable), Ever hospitalized, Recovered, and Deaths (confirmed + probable) on December 25, 2020. They also noted that this change in reporting schedule may cause some data to be “artificially inflated”, and as with all data from this period, we urge caution is using these figures.

December 16, 2020 to December 17, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Process / Source Change State Annotation / Source Change

On December 16, 2020, Oklahoma stopped reporting people under investigation currently hospitalized. To allow our data quality team time to investigate, we did not update their Currently hospitalized or Currently in ICU on December 16, 2020 through December 17, 2020. We have decided to continue reporting their hospitalization numbers from executive order reports, including only confirmed cases and are applying this change retroactively through December 16, 2020.

December 16, 2020 to December 17, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies State Annotation / Source Change

On December 16, 2020, Oklahoma stopped reporting “persons under investigation” who are **Currently hospitalized** or **Currently in ICU.** We have carried over the values from December 15, 2020 for these metrics while we investigate to see if Oklahoma is reporting the information in another location.

December 17, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 17, 2020, Oklahoma announced that due to technical issues on December 16, 2020, they were unable to update their testing data. As a result, we were unable to update Total PCR tests (specimens), Positive PCR tests (specimens), Negative PCR tests (specimens), or Negative PCR tests (people) on December 17, 2020.

December 16, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On December 16, 2020, Oklahoma stopped reporting “persons under investigation” who are **Currently hospitalized** or **Currently in ICU.** We have carried over the previous day’s values for these metrics while we investigate to see if Oklahoma is reporting the information in another location

December 6, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On December 6, 2020, Oklahoma's **Cumulative hospitalized **number decreased from 13128 to 13119.

December 2, 2020 to December 4, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On December 4, 2020 Oklahoma announced that the increase of 4,287 cases reported today was largely attributable to an issue with the state's reporting system, which resulted in the inclusion of backlogged cases from December 2 to December 4.

December 2, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On December 2, 2020, Oklahoma's **Pending **test results increased by ~6,000 tests, from ~2,500 to ~8,000. This is likely a pipeline issue due to the holidays.

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 27, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 27, 2020, Oklahoma only updated their state page and not their PDF. We were only able to update Cases (confirmed and probable), Ever hospitalized, Recovered, and Deaths (confirmed plus probable).

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 12, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On November 12, 2020, Oklahoma did not update their Executive Order Report. We only updated Confirmed cases, Cases (confirmed and probable), Cumulative hospitalized, Recovered, and Deaths.

May 17, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill Missed Update CTP Backfill

Fill May-17th total-tests-pcr by carrying over the value. It was skipped on that day because there was no new report from the state (other values were carried over

November 7, 2020

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On November 7, 2020, Oklahoma did not update Cases, Confirmed Cases, Cumulative hospitalized, Recovered, and Deaths. We carried these values over.

October 13, 2020

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On 10/13, Cumulative Hospitalizations decreased from 7284 to 7265.

September 8, 2020

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OK has announced that they are now combining confirmed and probable cases.

May 15, 2020 to September 2, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill New Metric

Removed calculated negative serology tests.

While verifying that the metric was always calculated, I realized that OK started reporting Total and Positive Antibody a week before CTP started recording it. Backfilled that week (the values only update weekly).

August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020

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

July 28, 2020

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On 7/28, for our curr. ICU value, we summed 285+22 instead of 185+22.

July 24, 2020

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OK did a data dump on 7/24 for 2 days due to dashboard challenges. Today’s (7/24) confirmed positives are 29,116 and and yesterday’s was 28,802.

July 21, 2020

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On July 21st, Oklahoma did not update cases, deaths, or recoveries by publication cut off. We added 893 cases, 913 recoveries, and 9 deaths based on the evening screenshot.

July 21, 2020

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OK did not update 7/21 due to technical issues

June 13, 2020 to June 14, 2020

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Positive Cases PCR corrected on two days, 6/13 and 6/14. No changes to OK’s current cumulative positives.

June 28, 2020

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Minor correction to positives (net change -50) on a single day, 6/28, to correct a data entry typo

June 13, 2020 to June 14, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

On June 13, 2020 and June 14, 2020 we recorded the wrong values for Confirmed cases. The values were corrected in the historical time series on June 15, 2020.

May 26, 2020

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Tags: CTP Process / Source Change

On May 26, 2020, we sourced the negative column from a directly reported number in Oklahoma's EOR. This caused the number of negatives to drop by approximately 1000.