March 3, 2021
Variables affected:
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recovered
Tags: State Anomalies
On March 3, 2021, Pennsylvania's Recovered decreased by 7039 as a result of the value being calculated as total cases multiplied by the percentage of recovered cases.
February 27, 2021
Variables affected:
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deathProbable -
death
Tags: State Anomalies
On February 27, 2021, Pennsylvania's confirmed and probable deaths numbers were not updated.
February 15, 2021
Variables affected:
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recovered -
totalTestEncountersViral
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On February 15, 2021, Pennsylvania did not update its **Total PCR tests (test encounters)** or **Recovered** before the time of our daily update.
February 9, 2021
Variables affected:
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positiveCasesViral -
positive
Tags: State Anomalies
On February 9, 2021, Pennsylvania announced via a press release that case data for February 8, 2021 would be low as a result of “technical maintenance to the data server on Sunday”. Data for February 9, 2021, will include cases from “catch-up reporting because of lengthy server downtime”. Additionally, they noted that death data is sourced from a different server and was not affected.
February 8, 2021
Variables affected:
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totalTestEncountersViral -
recovered
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On February 8, 2021, Pennsylvania did not update its **Total PCR tests (test encounters)** or **Recovered** before the time of our daily update.
March 3, 2020 to February 3, 2021
Variables affected:
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totalTestResults
Tags: CTP API / Logic Changes
Pennsylvania's totalTestResults field is now drawn from the 'totalTestEncountersViral' field instead of being calculated from positive+negative.
This creates an overall TTR change of 27.9k day-over-day, 4.8 million cumulative
March 3, 2020 to February 1, 2021
Variables affected:
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totalTestsViral -
totalTestEncountersViral
Tags: CTP Backfill
Update PCR testing series from state open data portal. Our data started in September 2020, and the state published data going back all the way to March 2020. The wording of the dataset describes it as encounters rather than specimens.
January 29, 2021
Variables affected:
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positive
Tags: State Data Note
On 29 January, 2021, Pennsylvania posted a note on the dashboard that case counts today include backlogged antigen testing data from urgent care centers; 4,052 of today's newly identified cases had their specimens collected over a week ago.
January 28, 2021 to February 4, 2021
Variables affected:
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positiveCasesViral -
probableCases -
totalTestsPeopleViral -
negative -
positive
Tags: State Anomalies
On January 28, 2021, Pennsylvania [noted](https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/health-details.aspx?newsid=1273) that their case counts included backlogged antigen testing data, with 1,214 newly identified cases having their specimens collected over a week ago. Pennsylvania will continue to report this data over the next few days, which will in turn affect our reported case counts.
January 4, 2021
Variables affected:
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positive -
positiveCasesViral
Tags: State Data Note State Anomalies
On January 4, 2021, Pennsylvania [announced](https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/health-details.aspx?newsid=1231) "3,226 additional positive cases of COVID-19, in addition to 4,579 new cases reported Sunday, January 3 for a two-day total of 8,992 additional positive cases of COVID-19." In addition, case counts for January 4, 2021 are "atypically low" due to technical maintenance.
December 29, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsViral
Tags: State Anomalies
On December 28, 2020, Pennsylvania's Total PCR tests (specimens) value increased by ~690,000 from 7,202,533 tests to 7,892,184 tests. On December 29, 2020, this Total PCR tests value decreased by ~580,000 to 7,312,858 tests. We were unable to find an explanation for this fluctuation.
December 14, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsViral
Tags: State Anomalies
On December 14, 2020, Pennsylvania’s **Total PCR tests (specimens)** decreased by roughly 297,000 without explanation.
November 29, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsViral
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On November 29, 2020, the listed states had a partial or missed update.
November 26, 2020
Variables affected:
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All Metrics
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 3, 2020 to November 5, 2020
Variables affected:
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inIcuCurrently
On 11/3, PA began reporting cur. icu in their daily covid update press releases. We will begin capturing it during pub shifts on 11/6. Patched 11/3-11/5 cur. icu from press releases
October 22, 2020
Variables affected:
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positive
On 10/22, PA reported issues with a “faulty data file” and said that “some” of the cases they reported that day should in fact have been reported in yesterday’s count. We reached out to ask for further context, as today’s new case count is very high for PA. A DOH spox responded and said that they do not know exactly how many cases they’re talking about here, though it’s “likely a hundred to a few hundred."
May 22, 2020 to September 15, 2020
Variables affected:
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probableCases
Tags: CTP Backfill
On September 16, 2020, we backfilled Pennsylvania's probableCases from screenshots for May 22, 2020 through September 15,2020.
May 25, 2020
Variables affected:
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positiveCasesViral
Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction
We reported 68186 positive (PCR) cases on 5/25. This is incorrect according to screenshots: https://covidtracking.com/screenshots/PA/PA-20200525-184018.png.
September 4, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsViral -
totalTestsPeopleViral
On 9/4, we began our first capture of PA's recently released Total PCR Tests. We moved the calculation to the Total PCR Tests (People) column.
March 11, 2020 to September 3, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsViral -
totalTestsPeopleViral
Tags: CTP Backfill State Annotation / Source Change CTP API / Logic Changes
PA clarified that the time series we have been capturing is people so we are moving their full time series to the "peoplewise" column `Total Tests (PCR) People`
September 3, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsViral -
totalTestsPeopleViral
On 9/3, the state of PA released total PCR tests in units of Tests. Also clarified that negative and positive cases all refer to unique people -- any summation should probably go to the total tests (People) column
March 11, 2020 to August 17, 2020
Variables affected:
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totalTestsPeopleViral -
totalTestsViral
PA doesn't report Total Tests, so we have to add positive + negative, and the negative units are unclear. So we moved the Total Tests metric to "Total Tests (PCR)" from "Total PCR Tests (People)." Additionally, we are backfilling the Total Tests (PCR) metric from 3/11-5/17 using the positive case values plus the negative case values we had already recorded.
August 17, 2020
Variables affected:
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death -
deathConfirmed -
deathProbable
On 8/17, the state of PA does not report any new deaths. Likely a delay.
August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020
Variables affected:
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dataQualityGrade
States Grades not published for 8/12-8/13
August 2, 2020
Variables affected:
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onVentilatorCurrently
On 8/2, PA stopped reporting the number of patients on ECMO
July 7, 2020
Variables affected:
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recovered
Tags: CTP API / Logic Changes
On July 7, 2020, we carried over the number of recovered in Pennsylvania, because executing the percentage calculation would have resulted in a decline in the number of recovered patients.
June 11, 2020
Variables affected:
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positiveTestsAntibody
Tags: State / Metric No Update
On June 8, 2020, Pennsylvania stopped reporting the number of positive antibody tests. We carried the last reported value over until June 11, 2020 .
April 23, 2020
Variables affected:
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death
Tags: State Annotation / Source Change
On April 23, 2020 Pennsylvania removed Probable cases from their Deaths (confirmed and probable) total, causing a decrease of 201.