August 20, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On August 20, 2020, Rhode Island reported less negatives and less Total Tests (People) than the previous day

April 13, 2021

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Tags: New Metric

On April 13, 2020, Rhode Island started reporting an Ever hospitalized metric.

March 31, 2020 to February 22, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Process / Source Change

Clearing duplicate recoveries field after switch to hosp. discharges.

February 22, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On February 22, 2021, Puerto Rico's **Recovered** decreased by 27 without explanation. Additionally, Rhode Island's **Hospital discharges** and **Recovered** metrics each decreased by 57 without explanation.

February 22, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On February 22, 2021, Rhode Island's **Cumulative hospitalized** decreased by 55 without explanation, and Nebraska's **Cumulative hospitalized** decreased by 3 without explanation.

February 9, 2021

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Tags: State Anomalies

On February 9, 2021, Rhode Island’s Total PCR tests (people) and Negative PCR tests (people) decreased by roughly 34,000 without explanation.

December 24, 2020 to January 18, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Mistake Correction

clearing RI's confirmed cases input by ctp-bot

January 18, 2021

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On January 18, 2021, Rhode Island and North Carolina did not update their data due to the holiday. The next expected update for each of these states will be Tuesday, January 19, 2021.

December 31, 2020 to January 3, 2021

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On January 4, 2021, we backfilled weekend and holiday updates for Rhode Island.

December 31, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies State / Metric No Update

On December 31, 2020, Kentucky, Michigan and Rhode Island did not update their COVID-19 data due to the New Years holiday.

December 26, 2020 to December 28, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 24, 2020, Rhode Island announced on their [COVID-19 dashboard](https://ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com) that their data would not be updated on December 24, 2020 through December 27, 2020. Their data will next be updated on December 28, 2020.

March 1, 2020 to December 25, 2020

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Tags: State Annotation / Source Change

On December 26, we cleared Rhode Island's Positive Cases (PCR) field as we learned from outreach it includes antigen tests in the figure. The full history remains available in the Positive field.

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.

December 24, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies State Data Note

On December 24, 2020, Rhode Island announced on their COVID-19 dashboard that their data would not be updated on December 24, 2020 through December 27, 2020.

December 14, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On December 14, 2020, we backfilled weekend updates for Rhode Island.

December 14, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On December 7, 2020, we backfilled weekend updates for Rhode Island.

December 21, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On December 21, 2020, we backfilled weekend updates for Rhode Island.

December 11, 2020 to December 14, 2020

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Tags: State / Metric No Update

On December 11, 2020, Rhode Island announced they would not be updating all hospitalization metrics and recovered until December, 14, 2020 due to "routine maintenance."

November 26, 2020 to November 29, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

On November 30, 2020, we backfilled Rhode Island's updates from over the weekend, this time also backfilling the missed update from 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 25, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On November 25, 2020, Rhode Island’s **Total PCR tests (people)** decreased by roughly 500 and **Negative PCR tests (people)** decreased by roughly 1400 without explanation.

November 21, 2020 to November 22, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On November 23, 2020, we backfilled weekend updates for Rhode Island.

November 14, 2020 to November 15, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On November 16, 2020 we backfilled weekend updates for Rhode Island.

October 10, 2020 to October 12, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill CTP Backfill Missed Update

RI Weekend update (3-day update this time for US holiday on Monday)

October 3, 2020 to October 4, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

RI weekend update

September 30, 2020

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Tags: State Anomalies

On September 30, 2020, the number of positiveTestsViral dropped without explanation

September 26, 2020 to September 27, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

RI weekend update with days shifted by 1 day (to match pub-shift dating)

September 25, 2020

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On 9/25, Total Positive Cases dropped from 24,311 to 24,181 due to the removal of duplicative records.

September 19, 2020 to September 20, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

RI weekend update

September 12, 2020 to September 13, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

RI weekend backfill for 9/12 and 9/13

September 1, 2020 to September 7, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

RI weekend update (3 days this time, for labor day).

September 3, 2020

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On 9/3, cumulative hospitalizations decreased by 2.

August 29, 2020 to August 30, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

RI Weekend update for 2020-08-31

August 21, 2020

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Weekend metrics update for RI (Sat+Sun)

August 8, 2020 to August 9, 2020

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RI 8/8 and 8/9 filling in missing "positive" values (retrying Michal's save)

August 8, 2020 to August 9, 2020

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Fix the 1st RI weekend update with days shifted by 1 day (to match pub-shift dating)

March 1, 2020 to August 16, 2020

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We adjusted the back-filled data by one day to make up for the fact that DE is one day behind in reporting

August 15, 2020 to August 16, 2020

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On 8/17, we back-filled RI's numbers for the weekend.

March 1, 2020 to August 16, 2020

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On August 12, 2020 Rhode Island revised its total test reporting from specimens to encounters. On August 17, 2020,, we back-filled the "Total Test Encounters (PCR)" column with the values from the state. The post 8/12 values in "Total Tests (PCR)" were removed since RI no longer reports in specimens.

August 12, 2020 to August 13, 2020

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

August 8, 2020 to August 9, 2020

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RI freezes values during the weekend and updates actual weekend numbers only on Monday. This is an update of Saturday and Sunday data that became available on Monday.

July 8, 2020

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Tags: New Metric

On July 8, 2020, Rhode Island started reporting tests in units of testing encounters in addition to unique people.

March 11, 2020 to May 2, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On May 6, 2020, we update Rhode Island's last update field for March 11, 2020 through May 2, 2020 to reflect the "as of" date of the positives field.

April 19, 2020 to April 24, 2020

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Tags: CTP Backfill

On May 6, 2020, we updated Rhode Island's positive, cumulative hospitalized, current hospitalized, and deaths for April 18-23 2020, from the data they reported at the time to revised numbers they provided on May 6, 2020. This update caused an artificial decrease in Deaths on April 24, 2020 as that value was from original reporting not the updated values from the state.