Puerto Rico: October 2, 2020

On October 1, 2020, we received a press release from Dept. de Salud with updated Total PCR tests (specimens), Negative PCR tests (specimens), and Positive PCR tests (specimens) for Puerto Rico dating back to August 28, 2020. We backfilled these values from August 28, 2020 through September 30, 2020, however due to an error in the backfill process, we did not begin capturing these new values on subsequent dates. On February 11, 2021, we corrected this error and backfilled our timeseries of Total PCR tests (specimens), Negative PCR tests (specimens), and Positive PCR tests (specimens) for October 1, 2020 through February 10, 2020 with the values from the August 28, 2020 press release.

PR is changing probable case reporting to reflect antigen instead of antibody reporting, moving to report antibody in a suspected category. Probable cases have dropped to 77. To avoid the appearance of a ~33,000 case drop today nationally and to reflect most up to date CSTE August definition, we are removing cases identified via antibody from PR's historical Positive field.

As reported in #936, PR is changing probable case reporting to reflect antigen instead of antibody reporting, moving to report antibody in a suspected category. Probable cases have dropped to 77.

To avoid the appearance of a ~33,000 case drop today nationally and to reflect most up to date CSTE August definition, we are clearing PR's probable case history.

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